Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

By clairebartlett00

  • Born

    in Tuskegee Alabama

  • Married

    Raymond Parks

  • Graduated

    from high school and received her diploma, which not many young black women did back then

  • Joined

    and became a member (& secretary) of the NAACP

  • Sparked

    the montgomery bus boycott that lasted over 381 days, led by Martin Luther King, jr.

  • Arrested

    she was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation ordinances.

  • Ended

    Segregated seating on city buses after US Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional

  • Awarded

    The Presidential Medal of Freedom