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Her mother taught her how to read.Rosa had to
leave school in 1929 because of family illness.Rosa had take care of
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Rosa was done high school in 1933.because
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So she could not finish school. |
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When the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political
protest campaign in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama intended to oppose the
city’s policy of racial segregation on it’s public transit system. |
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The ensuing struggle led to a US Supreme Court
Decision on Nov 13, 1956 that declared illegal the Alabama and Montgomery
laws requiring segregated buses. |
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February4,1913 as Rosa Louise McCauley when Rosa was a retired seamstress and
figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, most famous for her refusal
in 1955 to give up a bus seat to a white man and her arrest. |
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Rosa is born in |
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February4, 1913.Her mother,Leona Edwards
McCauley,is a schoolteacher.Rosa’s father,James McCauley, is a carpenter
and house builder. |
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The response,opposing whites formed chapters of
the White Citizens Councils. Like
the Ku Klux Klan, the Councils sometimes resorted to violence: Martin Luther King’s house was
firebombed and boycotters were physically attacked. |
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August 1994,Rosa was attacked in her home by a
young man who wanted money from her.Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years
ago on a December 1 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. |
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When the ensuing struggle eventually led to a
United States supreme court decision on November |
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13,1956 the declared illegal |
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The Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring
segregate buses. |
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You go to www.Rosa parks .com. |
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Rosa died in 2005 on October 24,2005 |
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In1932 she married Raymond Rosa Parks,a
barber,with whom she become active in Montgomery's Alabama where colored people lived. |
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The front of the bus was full ,the driver could
order black passengers sitting towards the
front of the bus to surrender their seat. |
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