1. Rosa Parks
Mother of The
Civil Rights
Movement By
Madeline Haynes

2. Picture taken at the Rosa Parks
Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

3. In 1955, when my grandmother was ten years old, she went
to visit cousins in Stone Mountain, Georgia. They wanted to
go see a “picture show” in atlanta and had to ride a bus to
get there. My grandmother, who came from a small, rural
town in South Carolina had never ridden on a city bus
before. Back in South Carolina, her closest playmates
were the children of Curly Moore, a black man who helped
her daddy get the fields ready for planting every year in
the spring. When her mother fixed dinner and called for
the men to come eat, mr. moore would tell her daddy, “i’ll
just wait for you out here while you eat mr. mack.” her
daddy would reply, “if you’re good enough to walk beside
me in the field, you’re good enough to put your feet under
my table and eat with me.” so, she had learned fairness
and kindness for all people by her daddy’s example and
when black people were treated unfairly on the bus that
day in Atlanta, my grandmother was sad and confused.
Little did she know that a woman named Rosa Parks was
about to set about a chain of events that would change
the future of all races forever.

4. This is my This is my
grandmother, Pat grandmother’s daddy
Bradley, when she standing beside his
was seven years old. plow mule Dolly.

5. Curly Moore’s
family with my
grandmother, Pat
Bradley.
Curly Moore

6. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913
in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother was a school
teacher and her father was a carpenter and house
builder.

7. Rosa Parks Experiences
Segregation Growing Up
• Rosa and Sylvester, her brother, went to a school for
black children that only had one room.
• White children went to a bigger and better school.
• White children had a bus to take them to school, but
there was no bus for the black children.
• Black children had to walk to school.
• Sometimes the white children on the bus would throw
out trash and laugh at the black children walking to
school.

8. As A Child, Rosa Was Brave And
Stood Up For Herself
When Rosa was ten years old, she stood up to a
white boy named Franklin who was always picking
on her and Sylvester. She picked up a brick and
threatened to hit him with it because he tried to hit
Sylvester. The white boy backed up and looked
around for someone to help him. This made Rosa
feel powerful and strong. When she got home and
told her story, she got in trouble. Instead of being
proud of her, her grandmother and mother were
unhappy with her for being disrespectful to the white
boy. This is when Rosa learned how unfair life was
for black people and decided that she didn’t like it.

9. Rosa’s Feelings About Racism
• Rosa refused to use segregated water
fountains.
• Rosa chose to take the stairs instead of using
segregated elevators.
• Rosa believed all people were children of God
so racism was un-Christian.
• Rosa believed racism was un-American because
the Constitution says all people should be
treated equally.
• Rosa believed racism was silly because even
her light skinned grandfather had been thrown
out of a political meeting for blacks because
they said he was too white.

10. Rosa McCauley married Raymond
Parks, a barber, in December of 1932.

11. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People
• The National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People is an organization that works
to end unfair treatment of African Americans and
others.
• Raymond Parks was a member of the NAACP
for many years before marrying Rosa.
• Rosa Parks joined the NAACP after she married
Raymond.
• At her first NAACP meeting, Rosa was the only
woman there and she was elected to be the
secretary of the Montgomery chapter.

12. Rosa Parks Gets Arrested
• On December 1,1955, Rosa was coming home from her
job at a department store.
• She got on a crowded bus and sat down in the middle
section, which was ok for black people to do as long as
no white people were standing.
• At the next stop, more white people got on the bus and
had to move to the middle section.
• The bus driver told four African Americans in Rosa’s row
to get up and move to the back.
• They all moved except Rosa.
• The bus driver called the police and Rosa was arrested.

13. Bus Boycott of
Montgomery, Alabama
• Rosa Park’s decision not to give up her
seat on the bus and her arrest caused
all black people in Montgomery to
refuse to ride the city busses.
• The bus boycott lasted for 381 days.
• The case was taken all the way to the
Supreme Court of The United States. No
longer did black people have to give up
their seats on busses to white people.
Black people had won this battle in the
fight for civil rights.

14. The Rosa Parks Museum
In December 2005, I visited the Rosa Parks Museum in
Montgomery, Alabama with my family. I saw a reenactment of the
day Rosa Parks was arrested. The museum was built to show
people what Rosa Parks and other black people experienced and
to honor her memory. At the museum, I learned that Rosa Parks
cared for other people and not just herself.

15. Pictures from my visit to the Rosa Parks Museum
in Montgomery, AL

16. This is me sitting
beside a statue of
Rosa Parks on a
bus seat.
This is me standing
in front of a quilt
about Rosa Parks’
life that was on
display at the
museum.

17. The Alabama
Historical
Commission
presented this exhibit
“381 Days, The
Montgomery Bus
Boycott Story “ at
the Rosa Parks
Museum from
December 2, 2005 to
January 14, 2006.
A tri-fold on
display in the gift
shop at the
museum.

18. Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at the
age of 92. She will always be remembered
as a woman of quiet
strength, faith, dignity, and love.

19. Bibliography
1. A Picture Book of Rosa Parks by:
David Adler, illustrated by:
Robert Casilla
2. I Am Rosa Parks by: Rosa Parks
with Jim Haskins, illustrated by:
Wil Clay
3. Rosa Parks Young Rebel by:
Kathleen Kudlinski, illustrated by:
Meryl Henderson
4. Rosa Parks by: Kenneth C. Davis