Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist born in 1913 in Alabama. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, leading to her arrest and sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. As a leader in the civil rights movement, Parks traveled the country advocating for desegregation and equal rights. She is known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" and her actions challenged racial segregation laws and helped launch the modern Civil Rights Movement.

1. ROSA PARKS Brittney
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2. ABOUT ROSA PARKS
 Born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4,
1913
 African American Civil Rights Activist
 Montgomery Bus Boycott
 Called the “first lady of civil rights” and
“mother of the freedom movement”
Great grandfather was Scots-Irish and great
grandmother was Native American
⤷ She wasn’t full African American
Died October 24, 2005 in Detroit

3. BACKGROUND OF HOW BLACKS
WERE TREATED BEFORE THE CIVIL
RIGHTS MOVEMENT…"Back then, we didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter
of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember
going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and
hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn
down.” – Rosa Parks

4. ROSA PARK’S LEAD TO FAME:
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was
asked to give up her seat for a
white passenger to sit down because
the white section of the bus was full.
Parks refused to give up her seat
because she was in the colored
section of the bus.
Parks was arrested by two police
officers because she violated
segregation laws.
Blacks began to boycott the
Montgomery bus system after her
arrest.

5. A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
In the mid-1960’s Rosa Parks traveled nationally as a civil rights
activist with other activists such as Martin Luther King, Malcom X and
John Conyers and participated in the Selma march.
Parks went to schools, hospitals, and community gatherings to
protest welfare, job discrimination, education, and housing.
Parks has many streets, memorials, and a few statues in her
remembrance and is known as one of the first women to spark the
civil rights movement.

7. WORKS CITED
"Rosa Parks Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 11 Dec.
2015. <http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715>.
"Rosa Parks." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2015.
<http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks>.