Rosa Parks
Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her denial to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus began a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law of segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many awards during her lifetime.
Rosa’s childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After her parents divorced, Rosa's mother moved …show more content…
She worked closely with chapter president Edgar Daniel (E.D.) Nixon. Nixon was a railroad porter known in the city as an advocate for blacks who wanted to register to vote, and also as president of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union.On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus African American residents of Montgomery often avoided municipal buses if possible because they found the African American-in-back policy so demeaning. Nonetheless, 70 percent or more riders on a typical day were black, and on this day Rosa Parks was one of them.Segregation was written into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens, and the seats behind them for black citizens. However, it was only by custom that bus drivers had the authority to ask a black person to give up a seat for a white rider. There were contradictory Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available.Nonetheless, at one point on the route, a white man had no seat because all the seats
Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her denial to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus began a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law of segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many awards during her lifetime.
Rosa’s childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After her parents divorced, Rosa's mother moved …show more content…
She worked closely with chapter president Edgar Daniel (E.D.) Nixon. Nixon was a railroad porter known in the city as an advocate for blacks who wanted to register to vote, and also as president of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union.On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus African American residents of Montgomery often avoided municipal buses if possible because they found the African American-in-back policy so demeaning. Nonetheless, 70 percent or more riders on a typical day were black, and on this day Rosa Parks was one of them.Segregation was written into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was reserved for white citizens, and the seats behind them for black citizens. However, it was only by custom that bus drivers had the authority to ask a black person to give up a seat for a white rider. There were contradictory Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available.Nonetheless, at one point on the route, a white man had no seat because all the seats