Rosa Parks
Published on Apr 23, 2017
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By Phoenix Adair
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This Book is dedicated to my Nana. Thanks for your inspiration, support and most of all love.
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Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to the parents of James and Leona McCauley. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. Rosa parks was a small child because she was often ill.
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Rosa parks had to leave high school early to take care of her grandmother and mom. Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks at age 19.
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Rosa became active in the civil rights movement along with her husband. She served as a youth leader for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP,and she worked as a secretary to E.D. Nixon,president of the NAACP through 1957.
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From an early age Rosa Parks faced Injustice wherever she went and decided that by taking action she could change the world around her.
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On December 1,1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery,AL and sparked the American civil Rights movement of the 20th century.
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Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92.
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More than half a century after Rosa Parks helped kindle the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama, she has become the first black woman to be honored with a life-size statue in the capitol.
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