what are some cool Rosa Parks facts?

Answer 1

As a child, she was small, she suffered poor health and had chronic tonsillitis.

She was homeschooled by her mother until she was eleven.

Parks went on to a laboratory school set up by the "Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes" for secondary education.

When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of her house, Parks recalls her grandfather guarding the front door with a shotgun.

She succeeded in registering to vote on her third try, despite the Jim Crow laws.

Sometime soon after 1944, she held a brief job at Maxwell Air Force Base, a federally owned area where racial segregation was not allowed, and rode on an integrated trolley. Speaking to her biographer, Parks noted, "You might just say Maxwell opened my eyes up." (In 1944, athletic star Jackie Robinson, in a confrontation with an Army officer in Fort Hood, Texas, refused to move to the back of a bus. Robinson was brought before a court-martial, which acquitted him.)

On August 30, 1994, Joseph Skipper, an African-American drug addict, attacked the then 81-year-old Parks in her home. The incident sparked outrage throughout America. After his arrest, Skipper said that he had not known he was in Parks' home, but recognized her after entering. Skipper asked, "Hey, aren't you Rosa Parks?" to which she replied, "Yes." She handed him $3 when he demanded money, and an additional $50 when he demanded more. Before fleeing, Skipper struck Parks in the face. Skipper was arrested and charged with various breaking and entering offenses against Parks and other neighborhood victims. He admitted guilt and, on August 8, 1995, was sentenced to eight to 15 years in prison.

Answer 2

She won a bronze medal in Curling in the 1952 Olympics.

Answer 3

she was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man in a Montgomery bus. After she was arrested, Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott in her honor.