Rosa parks by Justin Wells https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2020-11-18 17:04:18 UTC 2026-03-22 23:59:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Rosa Parks Biography Rosa Parks was born on February 4th in 1913. Her brother Sylvester was born in 1915, and shortly after that, her parents separated. Rosa then moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there. In 1932 at the age of 19, she married Raymond Parks. A self-educated man 10 years her senior who worked as a barber and was a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Rosa, who worked as a seamstress, became respected members of Montgomery’s large African American community. On Thursday, December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks was 42, she was coming home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus. Black residents of Montgomery often avoided municipal buses if possible because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so demeaning. Nonetheless, 70 percent or more riders on a typical day were Black, and on this day Rosa Parks was one of them. The front of a Montgomery bus was saved for white citizens and the seats behind them for Black citizens. However, it was only by custom that bus drivers had the authority to ask a Black person to give up a seat for a white rider. In 1999, Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. Then when she died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005, she became the first woman in the nation’s history to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol. https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941790668 2020-11-19 15:27:14 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941790668 Rosa Parks legacy On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and from there sparked a national civil rights movement for racial equality. Rosa Parks was able to outlive many of her contemporaries and to witness first hand the effects of the Civil Rights Movement. In the four decades after refusing to give up her seat, she saw an end to legalized segregation in America and the emergence of a Black upper and middle class. Also, Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her bravery led to nationwide efforts to end racial segregation. https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941816224 2020-11-19 15:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941816224 How Rosa Parks impacts us todayRosa parks impacts society today because she helped make a movement to show colored people how to stand up for themselves and how to make a difference. She made people notice that she wouldn't let anyone push her around, and today that still puts an impact on us because she ended legalized segregation so that colored people and whites were one step closer to being totally equal. Instead of having colored people and whites drink out of different water fountains, they can drink from the same fountain. Same with bathrooms, everyone can use them. There are so many things she did that still impact us today. https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941825859 2020-11-19 15:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941825859 https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941835957 2020-11-19 15:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941835957 https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941845729 2020-11-19 15:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941845729 https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941852481 2020-11-19 15:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/juwells1/gy6qux2uo6oerh1p/wish/941852481