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President Clinton signed it into law on May 3, 1999. After her parents separated when she was just a little girl, Rosa and Sylvester moved with their mother to Alabama’s capital city, Montgomery.

Rosa loved to learn and studied hard at high school.

This meant that from 5 December 1955 (the date of Rosa’s trial), African Americans refused to travel on buses. Mrs. Parks continues to receive numerous awards including the very first Lifetime Achievement Award ever given by The Institute for Research on Women & Gender, Stanford University. On December 21, 2004 the 49th Anniversary of the Mrs.

Parks’ arrest was commemorated with a Civil Rights and Hip-Hop Forum at the Franklin Settlement in Detroit, Michigan.

On February 4, 2005 Mrs. Parks’ 92nd birthday was celebrate at Calvary Baptist Church in Detroit, MI. Students from the Detroit Public Schools did “Willing to be Arrested,” a reenactment of Mrs. Parks arrest.

On September 26, 1998 Mrs. Parks was the recipient of the first International Freedom Conductor’s Award by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She attended her first “State of the Union Address” in January 1999. The bill was passed unanimously in the Senate on April 19, and with one descenting vote in the House of Representatives on April 20.

And that’s just what she did, before beginning work as a seamstress in Montgomery.

 

Racial segregation

Life for African Americans like Rosa was hard. They took form as sit-ins, eat-ins, swim-ins, and similar causes. These laws also meant black people could be arrested for small things.

 

What did Rosa Parks do?

In the face of such racism, Rosa decided to make a stand for what was right.

Thousands of courageous people joined the “protest” to demand equal rights for all people.

Mrs. She, however, was unable to graduate with her class, because of the illness of her grandmother Rose Edwards and later her death.

As Rosa Parks prepared to return to Alabama State Teacher’s College, her mother also became ill, therefore, she continued to take care of their home and care for her mother while her brother, Sylvester, worked outside of the home.

Raymond, now deceased was born in Wedowee, Alabama, Randolph County, February 12, 1903, received little formal education due to racial segregation. Despite these challenges, Parks was an avid learner and displayed a strong sense of independence.

In her formative years, she often faced racial discrimination, particularly when she and her family would travel.

She continued to support the NAACP and many civil rights events, and in 1987 she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to provide career training for young people in Detroit.

Rosa received numerous awards for her strength, courage and her incredible work for civil rights – including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.

 

When did Rosa Parks die?

Rosa died of natural causes on 24 October 2005 at the age of 92.

President George Washington was the first to receive the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. They journey primarily by bus as “freedom riders” did in the 1960′s,the theme: “Where have we been? Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history.

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