Rosa Parks: The Bus Ride To Equality

Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 by her parents James and Leona McCauley. At the age of 2 Rosa’s parents separated causing Rosa to move to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her grandparents. In 1915 her brother Sylvester was born. Then later her parents began to separate. At the age of 11 Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama and attended high school which was known as a laboratory school called the Alabama state teachers college for Negroes. At the age of 16 parks left the school to care for her ill grandmother and chronically ill mother. When parks was 19 she married Raymond parks whom was self-educated, but was also 10 years her senior. Raymond Parks was a barber, a long-time member of the National Association

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Rosa Parks was raised in her Grandparents house in pine level, Montgomery County, in Alabama. Her Mother's name was Leona Edwards and her father James McCauley was a carpenter. On February 4, 1913 Rosa was born, ya

Rosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. She moved with her parents, James and Leona, to Pine Level, Alabama, at the age 2 to reside with Leona’s parents.Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She left at 16, in 11th grade because she needed to care for her grandmother and, shortly thereafter, her chronically ill mother. ¨In 1932, at 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. He supported Rosa in her efforts to earn her high-school diploma, which she ultimately did the following year.¨(Newsmakers) even at a young age of 19 she supported african American rights and dedicated her life to education and caring for people but nothing prepared her for what was going to happen next in life.

The central idea of the article, “Rosa Parks: Beyond the Bus,” is that everyone should be treated equally and everyone should stand up for their rights. Rosa Parks was a really important person because she was one of the people in the Civil Rights Movement. It was unfair for Rosa because in her early life, she had to walk to school while the white children took busses not only that, but she also had to face a lot of racism. Rosa also dropped out in 11th grade to take care of her sick mother and grandmother. I think that Rosa did the right thing and stood up for her rights and everyone else's.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913 in tuskegee Alabama. She is a African American woman that refused to give up her set a white man on a montgomery bus.So this conflict caused the montgermy bus boycott in Montgermy Alabama.Rosa Parks was sent to jail for not giving up her seat to a white man.She was released from jail in 2003.She was happy to see that Martin Lurther King jr ended the montgermy bus

Background Information: - Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her family later moved to Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa’s mother was a teacher, so that influence Rosa to want to become a teacher too, when she grew up. Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11. She left highschool early in order to care for her sick grandmother. She married Raymond Parks, a well educated young man, when she was 19. Rosa Parks later worked as a seamstress and joined the NAACP.

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

Did you know that Rosa Parks actually wasn’t the only person to remain seated on a segregated bus when she was told to move? Claudette Colvin and Ruth Hamilton also refused to move. They were arrested together on March 2, 1955 Rosa was famously arrested for her actions on December 1, 1955. Mrs. Parks was used as the face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Louise Parks was a civil rights activist and the leader of a major part of the Civil Rights Movement.

On Thursday evening December 1, 1955, Rosa boards a Montgomery City Bus to go home after a long day working as a seamstress. She walks back to the section for blacks, and takes a seat. The law stated that they could sit there if no White people were standing. Rosa parks never liked segregation rules and has been fighting against them for more than ten years in the NAACP, but until then had never broke any of the unjust rules. As the bus stops at more places, more white people enter the bus, all the seats in the “White Only” section was filled and the bus driver orders Rosa’s row to move to the back of the bus, they all moved, accept Rosa. She was arrested and fined for violating a city regulation. This act of defiance began a movement that ended legal Segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom devoted people everywhere.

According to rosaparksfacts.com Rosa Louise McCauley as you also may know as Rosa Parks had a rough childhood. Rosa Parks’ full name is Rosa Louise McCauley and she was born on February 4, 1913. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. James and Leona McCauley were Rosa’s parents. James McCauley (her father) was a carpenter, Leona McCauley (her mother) was a teacher, and she also had a brother. When she was younger she was sick much of the time. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to Pine Level, a town next to Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa spent the rest of her childhood on her grandparents' farm. Rosa’s childhood in Montgomery helped her develop strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She did not attend a public school until the age of eleven. But, she was home schooled by her mother. At age eleven she attended the Industrial School for Girls in

A well-known image of Rosa Parks that brought about the courage for change during the fight for civil rights is actually fraudulent. The distinguished black and white shot of Rosa Parks sitting in front of a white man on the public bus was staged by reporter Nicholas Chriss. Although several people believe that it was deceitful to imitate the historical event, I think it was manipulated for a good cause; which validates the reasoning.

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. The school's philosophy of self-worth was consistent with Leona McCauley's advice to "take advantage of the opportunities, no matter how few they were." Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks

Together the teacher and the students will make a Multi-Flow Map, cause and effect map, with the help of the book If a Bus Could Talk: Story of Rosa Parks. The teacher and students will discuss about Rosa Parks change the situation of her struggles. The teacher and the students will fill Multi-Flow Map is finish the map will be left on the Smart Board for the students can use as reference during independent

Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime, including the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest award, and the prestigious Martin Luther King Jr Award. In 1966 President Bill Clinton gave Rosa Parks the Medal of Freedom. In 1999 she received the Congressional Gold Medal. In December, 2000, the Rosa Parks Library and Museum opened at Troy State University in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2002 a movie was made about Rosa Parks called ‘Ride to Freedom: The Rosa Parks Story’.  On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit.  She was a nonviolent revolutionary. Rosa Parks didn’t do it for fame or money, she did it to make the world a better