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Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Symbol

Learn about Rosa Parks, born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to move on a bus in 1955 sparked the civil rights movement. Explore her life, legacy, and impact on American history.

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Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Symbol

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  1. Rosa Parks BY BOWEN COLDWELL

  2. Rosa Parks Biography • Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92 at Detroit, Michigan, U.S. • Rosa Parks dad was James McCauley and her mom was Leona Edwardsthey were both carpenters and teachers. Her great grandfather was a Scottish - Irish man. • Rosa parks parents soon separated and when they separated Rosa Parks moved in with her mom at Pine Level, just outside Montgomery, Alabama and there she grew up on a farm with her maternal grand parents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester, and began her lifelong membership in the African melodist Episcopal church.

  3. Rosa Parks bus boycott • On December 1, 1995 Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she had not given room for a white person. While her action was not the first of it’s kind of impact of the civil rights issue.

  4. Rosa Parks Audio Log

  5. Rosa Parks legacy • The act of civil disobedience Rosa parks 55 years ago refusal to move to the back of the bus made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbols in America's civil rights moment.

  6. Rosa Parks birthplace

  7. THE END

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