On February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama Rosa Louise McCauley was born to parents James mcCauley and Leona McCauley. Her parents had simple jobs, her mother was a school teacher, her father was a carpenter. She was often sick when she was younger, which resulted in her being a small child. When Parks was 2, and her brother just born, her parents separated.Her mother took her and her brother and moved to Pine Level,a small town not far from Montgomery Alabama. she spent the rest of her childhood living on her grandparents farm. Parks did not go to public school until she was eleven years old. Before hand, her other had home schooled her. When she was eleven she went to the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, where she took various vocational
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Parks sat down in the first row of the blacks-only section, when a white man boarded the bus. The bus driver, James Blake, then ordered Parks and three other african american women to the back of the bus. The three women obliged while Parks did not, she was arrested and charged for violating the city law that required racial segregation on public buses.This was not her first run in with James Blake, coincidently, but twelve years before Rosa Parks boarded James’s bus, paid her fare, and then was thrown off the bus when she was told to re-enter through the back of the bus and refused. Parks was not the only woman that year arrested for resisting to follow the law requiring racial segregation, four women , Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie Mcdonald, and Mary Louise Smith, also were arrested and charged with the same …show more content…
On October 29, 2005 she was flown to Montgomery, Alabama where she was laid in a horse drawn hearse and taken to St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and had a memorial in her honor. After the memorial that same evening she was transported to washington D.C., she laid in honor for more than fifty thousand people to view her. She stayed until October 31, where they had a memorial for her. She was then transported back to detroit where she was laid in the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for two days. On November 2, her funeral was held in the Greater Grace Temple Church. The service lasted for over seven hours and thousands of people came to honor her for all she had did. Rosa Parks won’t only be remembered for the large part she took in the Civil Rights Movement, but for the bravery and courageousness she showed. many people say that rosa parks was simply too tired from work that day but rosa parks herself said;
“People always say that i didn’t give up my seat because i was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than i usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have the image of me being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired i was, was tired of giving
Parks sat down in the first row of the blacks-only section, when a white man boarded the bus. The bus driver, James Blake, then ordered Parks and three other african american women to the back of the bus. The three women obliged while Parks did not, she was arrested and charged for violating the city law that required racial segregation on public buses.This was not her first run in with James Blake, coincidently, but twelve years before Rosa Parks boarded James’s bus, paid her fare, and then was thrown off the bus when she was told to re-enter through the back of the bus and refused. Parks was not the only woman that year arrested for resisting to follow the law requiring racial segregation, four women , Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie Mcdonald, and Mary Louise Smith, also were arrested and charged with the same …show more content…
On October 29, 2005 she was flown to Montgomery, Alabama where she was laid in a horse drawn hearse and taken to St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and had a memorial in her honor. After the memorial that same evening she was transported to washington D.C., she laid in honor for more than fifty thousand people to view her. She stayed until October 31, where they had a memorial for her. She was then transported back to detroit where she was laid in the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for two days. On November 2, her funeral was held in the Greater Grace Temple Church. The service lasted for over seven hours and thousands of people came to honor her for all she had did. Rosa Parks won’t only be remembered for the large part she took in the Civil Rights Movement, but for the bravery and courageousness she showed. many people say that rosa parks was simply too tired from work that day but rosa parks herself said;
“People always say that i didn’t give up my seat because i was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than i usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have the image of me being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired i was, was tired of giving