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- Rosa Parks` childhood brought
her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial
equality. After her parents separated, Rosa`s mother moved the family to
pine level Alabama to live with her parents Rosa and her brother –both
former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality for the family to
live on the Edwards farm, where Rosa would spend her youth . In one
Experience, Rosa`s grandpa stood in front of the house with a shotgun , waiting for the Ku Klux Klan members
to march down the street .
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- Her family ,brother Sylivester ,Mother,
and Husband
- Her Mother and husband had cancer, her Husband had throat cancer
- Her mom; Leona McCauley –Teacher
- Her dad; James McCauley –Carpenter
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- Born ; February 4th 1913
- Died ; October 24th 2005 the age of 92
- Work; she did not work because she was unable to find a job.
- She was a student at the Industrial School for
Girls in Montgomery, she took academic and vocational courses, she
finished her high school studies in 1933
at a time when less then 7% of African Americans had a high school diploma .
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- 2000,
- her home state awarded her the Alabama Academy of Honor,[53]
- she receives the first Governor's Medal of Honor for Extraordinary
Courage.[54]
- She was awarded two dozen honorary doctorates from universities
worldwide
- She is made an honorary member
of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
- the Rosa Parks Library and Museum on the campus of Troy University in
Montgomery was dedicated to her.
- 2002,
- scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Parks on his list of 100 Greatest
African Americans.[55]
- A portion of the Interstate 10 freeway in Los Angeles is named in her
honor.
- 2003, Bus No. 2857 on which Parks was riding is restored and placed on
display in The Henry Ford [56]
- 2004, In the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system, the Imperial
Highway/Wilmington station, where the Blue Line connects with the Green
Line, has been officially named the "Rosa Parks Station
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(that is only some )
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
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- We both think she is brave, because she stood up for what she believed
in.
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- Rosa Parks got on a bus that only
whites could sit in the back of
the bus , she refused to move and later on got arrested
- Then later on whites and blacks could sit wherever they wanted . !!
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- http://en.wikipksedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Park
- http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
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