How Did Rosa Parks Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was a sister, daughter, and wife, but most of all she was a civil rights activist. Rosa is known for fighting against segregation and discrimination. She also struggled in her earlier life when she was arrested and lost her job. Rosa was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to James and Leona McCauley. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter with a middle class background. At age two Rosa and her family moved to Pine Level, Alabama when her parents separated. In Pin Level Rosa attend a one-room school that often lacked school supplies like desks. Since segregation was going on during this time period, African-Americans students were forced to walk to the 1st through 6th grade …show more content…
One day Rosa was headed home, so she took the bus. The black people had to give up their seats for white people if they needed a seat. That day Rosa was tired and didn’t surrender her seat for a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. When she refused to give up her seat she spurred a city wide boycott and helped launch a nationwide effort to end segregation. When Rosa didn’t surrender her seat in Montgomery she was arrested and lost her job as a seamstress in a local department store. Even though Rosa was widely honored she received death threats and hate for years afterwards because of her act. When Rosa couldn’t find a job in Montgomery, Rosa, her husband and mother moved to Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit Rosa had made a new life, and worked as a secretary and receptionist in U.S. Representative John Conyers’ Congressional office, also serving on the board of the Planned Parenthood federation of America. In 1988, Rosa retired from the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers