https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2 By the awsome Billie sienna hazelton en-us 2020-09-17 18:17:48 UTC 2025-11-24 17:18:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f68c.png billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756567187 Rosa parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama by James Mcauley and Leona Mcauley.]]> 2020-09-17 18:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756567187 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756587796 Growing up she was sick much of the time and was a very small child. Eventually her mother and father separated and her mother took Parks brother to live with her in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery. For the rest of her childhood, Rosa lived on her grandparents' farm.]]> 2020-09-17 18:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756587796 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756604681 In 1932, Rosa parks married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery. He was a member of the NAACP, which at the time was collecting money to support the defense of the Scottsboro Boys. After Rosa parks got married
she didn't return to her studies. Instead, she got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery.]]> 2020-09-17 18:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756604681 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756657590 Parks family moved to Montgomery when Rosa was eleven years old
After finishing elementary school at Pine Level she attended the Montgomery industrial school for girls. Then she attended the Alabama State Teacher's College in order to try and get her high school diploma. Unfortunately, Rosa's education was cut short when her mother became very ill]]> 2020-09-17 18:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756657590 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756664534 Rosa Parks rode Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955, on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's bus took effect. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row, the first row of the Colored Section.  Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement.]]> 2020-09-17 18:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756664534 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756699076
By midnight, 35,000 flyers were being mimeographed to be sent home with black schoolchildren, informing their parents of the planned boycott. On December 5, Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, given a suspended sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs.
Weeks after her arrest, Parks was jailed a second time for her role in the boycott. Parks was on the executive board of directors of the group organizing the Montgomery bus boycott, and she worked for a short time as a dispatcher, arranging carpool rides for boycotters in 1986.]]> 2020-09-17 18:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756699076 billie_hazelton https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756732247 On October 24, 2005, Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 92. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia, which she had been suffering from since at least 2002.  Three days after Rosa's death, all of the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor, and remained this way until Rosa was put into her final resting place.]]> 2020-09-17 19:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/billie_hazelton/oqa3g6d8lusha0c2/wish/756732247