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American
civil rights activist. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., on Feb. 4, 1913, Rosa
McCauley married Raymond Parks in
1932. She worked as a seamstress, among other jobs, and he was a barber.
Both were active members of the National Association for the Advancement of
Collared People, and in 1943 she became secretary of the Montgomery, Ala.,
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On Dec. 1, 1955, while riding home from work
in Montgomery, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male
passenger and was charged with violating the segregation laws. Her arrest,
detention, and conviction—the fine was $10, plus $4 in court costs—sparked a
year-long boycott of the bus system by Montgomery's black community, led by a
young Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, Jr. As the boycott continued, the
segregation laws were successfully challenged in federal court, and the
city's buses were
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This is the story of how Rosa Parks got in jail
. Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats
to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year
on the same charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14. |
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On Thursday evening December 1,1955 after a long
day of works a seamstress for a Montgomery,Alabama,Department store,Rosa
parks boards a city bus to go home.Rosa parks has finally had enough of
being treated as a second-class citizen.as an African American,she has put
up with terrible treatment on city buses,as well as in
stores,restaurants,movie theaters,and other places for years. |
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When Rosa parks was a kid:she liked to read
fairy tale books.she also liked to play outside as a kid.and help her
mother outside. |
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