Does anybody know anything about Rosa Parks?

Question

Died last year,Oct. 24

Answer 1

Name at birth: Rosa Louise McCauley

In 1955, Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, an African-American living in a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. When Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, she was arrested and fined. The subsequent bus boycott by African-Americans, led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., caused a national sensation that eventually led to widespread desegregation in the United States and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Over time, Parks became a national icon of civil rights and African-American pride. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.

Answer 2

Rosa was a young girl living in the south of the USA when the government attempted to integrate blacks into the public school system. Rosa got onto the buses, which at that time forbade blacks from riding in the front and she sat down wherever. Because of this she was chosen by the media to represent the fact that black children should be able to be treated fairly by society, ride the bus without discrimination and go to school just like all the other children. She was heralded as a young lady who represented the black community in seeking fair treatment in the American society. She set the standard of the day and led to what we now have today a free, more fair society where blacks and all people's of America are supposed to be treated equally.

Answer 3

Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man in the mid 50s. Sort of a symbolic "Shot heard round the world" for the Civil Rights Movement.

Answer 4

Rosa Parks was the woman who effectively kick-started the American civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. I would be extremely surprised and worried if anyone, American or otherwise who is familiar with the history of the 20th century and/or Dr. Martin Luther King did not know anything about her.

Answer 5

Rosa Parks was a black seamstress who on December, 1st 1955 after a long day at work refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was arrested for violated a city ordinance this began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. She was born on February 4th 1913 to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her name at birth was Rosa Louise McCauley. They married on December 18, 1932 at her mothers house.After the death of her husband in 1977, Mrs. Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development and she continued to work in the NAACP until her death on October 24, 2005.

Answer 6

She would not give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, AL and was arrested.

Answer 7

Only what I heard and read and that was that she symbolized the struggle against "seperate, but equal" in the application of law by race.

Answer 8

Go to wikipedia.com

Answer 9

heres all you need to know http://womenshistory.about.com/od/parksrosa/p/rosa_parks.htm

Answer 10

yeah, she was a native american indian from africa.