Rosa Parks by Amy Do

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Rosa Parks

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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1913 - 2005

Enrolled in a private school, the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls
Attended Booker T. Washington High School but was forced to leave to take care of her sick mother, later she returned to school and received her high school diploma in 1934
Attended Highlander Folk School and Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes

She was on the bus sitting in the fifth row (first row for colored) and a white man came on the bus but the white section was full so the bus driver told Rosa to move to the back but she refused to and so she got arrested and from that started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

NAACP stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Referred to as "the mother of the civil rights movement"
She had been a knowledgeable NAACP stalwart for many years
Gave the organization the incident it needed to move against segregation in the unreconstructed heart of the Confederacy, Montgomery, Alabama
Headed the Youth Division of the Montgomery NAACP branch for years

The NAACP awarded her the Spingarn Medal in 1979.
the Martin Luther King Jr Award in 1980
In September of 1992, She had the honor of winning the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award.
She was presented, by President Bill Clinton, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center presented her with the International Freedom Conductor Award in 1998.
In 1999, she was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal.
Later in 1999, she was awarded with the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Freedom Award.
The State of Alabama awarded her the Governor's Medal of Honor for Extraordinary Courage and the Alabama Academy Award in 2000.