Rosa Parks Biography

Rosa Parks real name was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was born in Alabama in Tuskegee on February 14, 1913. Rosa Parks moved to Montgomery, Alabama when she was 11 and attended high school. She went to an laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She later dropped out of school when she was 16 to take care of her sick grandmother and eventually her long-term ill mother. Rosa got married to Raymond Parks when she was 19 years old. Raymond was self educated and was a continuing member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as NAACP. The NAACP was established in 1909 in NYC by a group of activists. Both Rosa and raymond became an honored member of the Montgomery’s largest African-American
district. In December 1943, Rosa joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She later turned out to be the chapter secretary. Because she was the chapter secretary, she got to work with the chapter president, which was Edgar Daniel Nixon. President Nixon was known as an supporter for blacks voting. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was going home by taking the bus.
It was written that the front of the bus was saved for white citizens, while the seats in the back were for black citizens. When a white man entered the bus, there were no more seats in the front reserved section. Nonetheless, the bus driver told the front row riders of the colored section to move so that the white man can sit. The three colored people followed orders while Rosa Parks did not move. Because Rosa Parks did not obey the bus driver’s orders, two police officers came and stopped the bus. The officers took Rosa Parks into custody because she did not move when the driver told her so. The word of her incarceration spreaded quickly and President Nixon was with Rosa when she was released on bail. There was an idea that sparked after the Parks’ and Nixon had a conversation. They had the idea to have a Montgomery boycott with the buses on the day Rosa had the trial, which was on December 5th. The community spread the word out by passing out flyers to the black students so that they can inform their family about the boycott. Rosa Parks was trialed as guilty because she violated segregation laws and was given a suspended sented with a fine of more than
$10. The Montgomery Boycott was bigger than it was foreseen. President Nixon and others pronounced to take recognition of the boycott’s power by creating the Montgomery Improvement Association, also known as the MIA. The MIA influenced the boycott and named Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the president. The MIA was a prosperous campaign that was fixated on the national attention of racial segregation in the south. On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court controlled that the bus segregation was illegitimate. Because of the Supreme Court’s decision, the boycott ended in December 20th. Rosa Parks had gone through provocation all year and continued to get threats. Her husband, mother, and herself decided to move to Detroit where her brother was living. Rosa Parks became the administrative assistant in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. Rosa’s husband, mother, and brother passed away from cancer in between the years of 1977 to 1979. In 1987, she helped establish the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. She later retired in 1988. After her retirement, she began to travel to give her sustentation to civil-rights events. Later in 1999, she got an award for the Congressional Gold Medal, which was the uppermost honor the US can grant on a civilian. Rosa Parks passed away when she was 92 on October 24, 2005, becoming the first woman in the state’s history to lie in state at the US Capitol. Because of Rosa Parks influence and determination, she was recognized as “the mother of the civil rights movement”.