Rosa Parks is mother of the civil rights movement. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance.
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2007-02-20 13:43:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Heena, go to yahoo.com, and type in Rosa Parks. Rosa parks is known as the mother of civial rights. She boarded a bus, and sat down, and she refused to give up her seat to a white person. ( thats what she was famous for)
2007-02-20 13:45:40
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answered by tinkerbell 6
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She changed the world as we know it. They call her Mother of the Civil Rights Movement of America. It was her actions that got Martin Luther King involved with the movement. The rest is history.
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.rosaparks.org/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/gpguests/RosaParks.htm
http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
http://www.e-portals.org/Parks/
Go to this site first. It is a page of links to dozens more sites on her.
You now have enough sources to write your Ph.D on Rosa!
2007-02-20 13:40:41
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answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6
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Rosa Parks was a woman who stood on her own two feet by sitting down.
2007-02-20 13:39:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Helen Keller
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answered by Anonymous
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she was too tired to give up her bus seat and sparked the civil rights movement
2007-02-20 13:42:57
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answered by BANANA 6
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go to google
2007-02-20 13:39:03
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SHe died recently.
2007-02-20 13:45:16
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answered by Anonymous
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try biography.com or wikipedia.com
2007-02-20 13:39:24
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answered by Anonymous
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