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Rosa Parks - Research Paper

Rosa Parks

Rosa McCauly Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913 and grew up on a small farm. When her mother had saved enough money to pay for it, Rosa had began to attend a private school when she was 11 years old. But, while she was attending high school, her mother had become ill so she had to quit. After quitting high school, she got a job as a house servant and began sending money back to her family. When she married Raymond Parks, she returned to high school and graduated.
In 1943 she joined the NAACP and worked to ensure voting rights for blacks. One evening shortly after 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 1, 1955 while coming home from work, she boarded a bus and sat down. According to ...

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that she wouldn't be the last. He called a meeting of black leaders to see what action they should take.
By the end of the meeting, the leaders agreed to call a one-day boycott of all the city buses for Monday Dec.5. On Monday, the buses began their run through the black neighborhood and came back empty. The boycott was a sucess. They set up the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and named Martin Luther King Jr., it's leader. Rosa Parks went to court and was charged with violating a 1947 segregation law. She was found guilty and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. The Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council started threating the MIA organizers. Leaders and supporters were arrested, including Rosa Parks. They all lost their jobs. Dr. Kings house was dynamited. They boycott still continued. After 381 days of boycotting, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Rosa Parks. In April 1956, the bus company, which had lost more than $750,000 during the long boycott, ...

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Added: 7/24/2006 05:33:29 PM
Category: Biographies
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