On February 4, 1913, Mrs. Parks was born Rosa McCauley. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Mrs. Parks was the first child born in her family. Her parents names was James and Lenora Edwards McCauley. Her brother's name was Sylvester McCauley. Her brother, mother and father are all dead.
On December 18, 1932, Mrs. Parks got married to Mr. Raymond Parks in Pine Level, Alabama. In 1933, Mrs. Parks received her high school diploma.
In 1943, Mrs. Parks was elected as the secretary of the NAACP in Montgomery Alabama. She registered to vote in 1945.
In 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white man and she went to jail. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days. The leader of the Civil Rights Movement was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and black people was able to ride on the front seat of the bus. Mrs. Rosa Parks has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mrs. Rosa Parks received many awards in her life. In 1996, she received the highest U.S. Civilian Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Mrs. Rosa Parks died at 92 years old on October 24, 2005. I am very thankful for what Mrs. Rosa Parks did for me and all black people. We are able to sit on any seat on the bus that we want to.
