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Rosa Louis McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Rosa went on to attend a segregated, one-room school in Pine Level, Alabama, that often lacked adequate school supplies such as desks. African-American students were forced to walk to the 1st- through 6th-grade schoolhouse, while the city of Pine Level provided bus transportation as well as a new school building for white students.
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Rosa Louis McCauley weds Raymond Parks
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12 years before her famous stand Rosa Parks bravely refuses to give up her seat and is ejected from a racially segregated bus. She then tries to register to vote and is denied. She becomes secretary of the Montgomery NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization formed to promote use of the courts to restore the legal rights of black Americans)
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Rosa and her husband Raymond work with Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs. Rosa Parks acts as secretary and later a youth leader.
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This was the day she was arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man. This famous act lead to many changes throughout the nation.
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December 5, 1955—the day of Rosa's trial—in protest of her arrest. People were encouraged to stay home from work or school, take a cab or walk to work. With most of the African-American community not riding the bus, organizers believed a longer boycott might be successful.
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The Montgomery buses are desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses.
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Raymond Parks died in Detroit, Michigan, on August, 19, 1977, after a five year battle with cancer.
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This was the day someone very inspirational died, around 12 years ago.