Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is known for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks worked as a seamstress and activist for the NAACP. Her activism helped end segregation on public buses and she is considered the mother of the American civil rights movement. We can visit museums and sites in Montgomery dedicated to Parks and the bus she rode on to learn more about her impact.

1. ROSA PARKS
PERSONAL INFORMATION
-Born
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American that was born
the 4th
of February in 1913.
-Died
She died on the 24th of October in 2005.
-Country
She was from Tuskegee, Alabama.
-Studies
Rosa started school in 1919 when she was 6 years old. In 1924 she went to the Montgomery Industrial
School of Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. After 5 years, she left school. and she went to work in a shirt
factory.
-Jobs
After she left school, she went to work in a shirt factory. Then Rosa lost her job, so she and her husband
decided to leave Montgomery and go to Hampton, Virginia to find work. In Hampton she found a job as a
hostess in an inn at Hampton Institute, a historically black college.
Later, Parks and her husband went to Detroit, Michigan. Rosa continued working as an activist.
-Profession
She was an African-American civil rights activist. She was called “the first lady of civil rights” or “the
mother of the freedom movement”.
-Family
Her parents were James and Leona McCauley. Rosa had a brother named Sylvester and both were brought up
by their grandparents. She also had a Scots-Irish great-grandfather.
WHAT SHE DID
In addition to all her jobs, for years, she worked for United States Congressman John Conyers. After that, she
worked as an activist against apartheid in South Africa. She was a member of the local chapter of National
Association for the Advanced of Colored People. She also opened a center in Detroit that gave advice to
black young people about careers and job opportunities.
WHY SHE BECAME FAMOUS
On the 1st
of December in 1955 when Rosa Parks got into a bus after work, the bus driver said to her that she
had to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in front of the bus, and she
refused, so the bus driver stopped the bus and called the police. As a result she was arrested.
WHAT HER LEGACY IS
Rosa's activities helped finish the segregation of public facilities.
WHICH PLACES CAN WE VISIT RELATED TO THIS CHARACTER
There is a museum and a library with her name, and a boulevard named after Rosa Parks. We can also visit
the bus in which Rosa Parks was riding when she became famous.
LEARN MORE (websites used)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#Legacy_and_honors
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks