Rosa Parks Research Papers

Women’s History Month is “an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society”. It is celebrated during the whole month of March in the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and Australia. There are many prominent women who are to be recognized. One of them is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, best known as Rosa Parks, a Civil Rights Activist. Rosa Parks was born to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter, in February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She has a younger brother- Sylvester McCauley. When Rosa was still young, her parents separated, so she with her mother and brother left and went to live on her grandparent’s farm. Rosa’s mother wanted her to get a high school education but it wasn’t easy for her since she was an African-American girl living during the 1920s. Rosa attended Pine Level Elementary School, then attended the Montgomery Industrial School and then the Alabama State Teacher’s College. But, unfortunately Rosa had to drop off college in order to take care of her mother after she became ill.

Rosa Parks is best known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On December 1,1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks was riding the bus on the way home from work. When the white-only seats filled, the bus
In her final years, Parks co-funded a foundation for college-bound high school seniors, an Institute for Self Development, and Underground Railroad sites. She also published an auto-biography book called Rosa Parks: My Story. In this book she tells the story of her decision to remain seated in the bus. Then a few years later in 1955, she published a memoir titled, Quiet Strength which focused on her faith in life. Parks passed away in her apartment in October 24,2005 in Detroit,Michigan. Three days after her death, city officials in Montgomery and Detroit announced that front seats on city buses would be reserved with black ribbons in her