1. Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, named Rosa Louise at birth, is one of the many famous people involved in black history month. Her father, who was a carpenter and her mother, who was a teacher split up when Rosa was two years old. Rosa, her mother and her brother moved to her grandparent’s farm. Rosa, was home schooled by her mother ,Leona till Rosa was eleven. Rosa then moved to a Private IndustrialSchool for Girls in Montgomery. Name: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Birth: Feb, 4 1913 Death: Oct, 24 2005

2. Rosa Parks as a Child Rosa Parks, named Rosa Louise McCauley at birth. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on the 4th of February 1913. Her parent’s were James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Rosa was small, even for a child, and suffered with poor health and tonsillitis. When her parents split up she, along with her mother and younger brother Sylvester moved to her grandparent’s farm. She was home-schooled the until the age of eleven , when she moved to a private girls industrial school in Montgomery whereshe took academic and vocational courses. She then moved to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama state teacher’s college for Negroes for secondary education but was forced to leave to care for her grandma, and later for her mother, who both became ill.

3. Transportation Buses and trains didn’t provide separate vehicle's For black and white people, instead the where split into two sections. White people at the front and black people at the back. If a black person came through the front door and there was no room to get to the back they would have to pay and go out and come back in through the rear door. Sometimes the buses would just speed of before the black people could get back on. There was a sign that split the white people’s section and the black people’s sections and bus drivers where permitted to move them backwards or forwards, even to remove it all together! If the white people’s section was full and some white people were standing up the driver would ask some of the black people to ‘Move or stand up’ ,this is what happened to Rosa Parks.

4. Arrested! One day in 1943 Rosa Parks was told to leave the bus and re-enter through the rear door. On the way out she dropped her purse and sat down in a empty white persons seat to pick it up. The bus driver, James Blake was so enraged that he zoomed of seconds after Rosa had stepped off. In 1955, December 1st Parks then encountered another meeting with Blake. The were no more White only seats so James F. Blake demanded that 4 Black people moved. He asked Rosa and 3 other people to move. The three other people moved but Rosa refused. James threatened to call the police. He stuck to his word and Rosa was arrested. Rosa was bailed out of jail on the 2nd of December by E.D Nixon and Clifford Durr.

5. Boycott Parks didn’t plan the bus incident, but when it happened, she decided to stand up for her own rights. She was tired of being humiliated and treated unfairly. She was not the first black person to refuse to move on a bus, but when the incident happened to her, black people knew they had found someone to lead their cause. Rosa was a person who people could identify with and they could not find any faults within her character A group was formed and 35,000 leaflets were distributed calling for a boycott of the buses. This meant the blacks would refuse to ride the buses unless they were allowed to choose where they sat in the bus. For more than a year, 381 days, they boycotted the buses. They shared cars, rode in taxi's, and walked to work/school

6. Freedom! On November 13, 1956 the United States Supreme Court ruled that splitting white people and black people was unlawful, and the city of Montgomery, Alabama had no right to impose it on people riding their buses. The next month the signs on the bus seats designating white and coloured sections were removed. The boycott was over. This wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Rosa Parks, So we should be glad that she stuck up for her rights.