Rosa Louise McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, February 4. 1913. His father James was a carpenter and his mother was a teacher of Leona. At a young age, his parents divorced and his mother moved her and her younger brother to Pine Level, just outside Montgomery, Alabama to live on the farm of his maternal grandparents'. Rosa was a little boy for his age and poor health suffered growth. It was at this point in his young life has become a member of the AfricanMethodist Episcopal Church, which remained a member for life. He went to the local school until the age of 11 when her mother wrote in the industrial schools for girls in Montgomery. Rosa following a school founded by the State of Alabama Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education, but never graduated. She was forced to leave to take care of her sick grandmother to take and then immediately after his sick mother. He never had the opportunity to return to school.
Rosagrew up in a time when Jim Crow laws were in force. These state and local laws have been made to the segregation between whites and blacks, which covers all aspects of society to enforce. There was no segregation in schools, restaurants, toilets, drinking fountains also had appointed only white or black. Although Jim Crow laws called separate but equal status for blacks was not the case. The economic disadvantage, social and educational for blacksunder the aegis of this law were clear.
In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or what is commonly known as the NAACP. The husband was very supportive to his wife and he was instrumental in Rose to return to school for his high school diploma he received in 1933 to arrive. Currently less than 10% of blacks successfully finished high school.
It 'was in 1943 that became an active member ofthe Civil Rights Movement, which unites the Montgomery NAACP chapter. Rosa in 1944, had its first taste of equality in its orbit at Maxwell Air Force Base. The separation is not allowed on the base. His short period of time there has been a great influence on the events that have taken years later. Another influence on his life were a couple of Clifford and Virginia Durr. Rosa has worked as a maid for the couple and the time is white liberal friends with her employers. Encouraged DurrParks and legal Highlander Folk School to participate. In the summer of 1955, Rose attended the educational center for workers 'rights' and racial equality.
His involvement with the NAACP, his experience from Maxwell Air Force Base, his summer at the Highlander Folk School, and his religious beliefs, what Rosa Parks was the person he had met on the field that fateful day December 1, 1955. At 18:00 after leaving the department store in Montgomery where he worked aboard Rosathe bus home. She sat in the front row of seats were designated for blacks only. stops later, with more people on the bus was standing room only with a number of white people standing. The bus driver said the blacks in the black part to get up front and the spine to get enough seats to whites. Parks refused to give up her seat and was arrested. E 'saved the day following December 2.
Parks actions that day the bus wascatalyst for driving the bus boycott by blacks. The boycott on December 5th, just four days after his arrest was a great success. That evening formed a new organization called the Montgomery Improvement Association and the then-unknown Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. became the president. It was agreed that the bus boycott will continue until the laws were changed and blacks the right to sit anywhere on the bus to have.
Rosa Parks' actions inspired not onlyBüsing boycott, but also a greater national and international reputation of blacks African-Americans. This started the rapid growth of the movement for equality and justice for all people, blacks, poor whites and all those who seek racial justice and equality of opportunity and freedom in our country.
Rosa Parks died at age 93 October 29, 2005. She will always be remembered as an African civil rights activist and how the U.S. Congress has considered "the first lady of civil rights."His courage and determination to fight for the rights of all people will continue to inspire future generations to be steadfast in our faith.
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