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Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks Research Paper

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. She stood up and stood true to her beliefs to make a big shift in our nation's history. We are going to explore and commemorate the life of this strong and amazing woman.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to Leona and James McCauley. She had a younger brother named Sylvester. Rosa grew up in the southern part of Alabama. At the age of 2 her parents separated, she moved to her grandparents farm in a near by town of Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa went to a local school for African-American children where her mother was a teacher. Living in the …show more content…

Rosa dropped out to take care of her family. Rosa met a successful barber in Montgomery named Raymond Parks. They had married a year later in 1932. On her husbands insistence Rosa went back to school earning her high school diploma. On December 1, 1955 while riding the bus she was asked to leave her seat for a white passenger she refused to do so and was arrested. She was charged with breaking segregation laws. For her devotion in Civil Rights Movements Rosa was awarded: Springarn Medal, Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Academy of Achievements Golden plate Award, Detroit- Windsor, International Freedom festival freedom award, Congressional Gold Medal, as well as the Presidential Medal of freedom. When asked if she was happy living in retirement. Rosa Parks replied. “ I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don’t think there is any such thing as complete happiness, it pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet”. (Parks,

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