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ROSA PARKS

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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BIOGRAPHY

  • Her name was Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
  • Known as "Mother of Civil Rights Movement"
  • Was African American Civil Rights Activist and seamstress
  • Was born Feb 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama
  • In 1932 she married Raymond Parks at 19
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THE 1955 BUS INCIDENT

  • Refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
  • Was arrested &convicted of violating the laws of segregation
  • Montgomery Improvement Association initiated a boycott
  • Boycott was a success & was led by Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Boycott lasted 381 days
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THE END OF SEGREGATION

  • Judge finds her guilty of breaking the law & fines her $14
  • Her lawyer appeals her case to the U.S, Supreme Court
  • Nov. 13,1956 Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional
  • Court's written order arrived in Montgomery
  • The boycott ended the day after Dec 20, 1956
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ROSA

  • In 1943 she had argued with the same driver when he told her to enter though the back door
  • In 1996 President Clinton presented Rosa with Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • In 1999 she was awarded Congressional Gold Medal the higest honor awarded on civilian
  • Died Oct 24, 2005, her casket was placed in U.S. Capitol rotunda for 2 days
  • Was the only woman & second African American n America history to lie in State Capitol
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MACK CHARLES PARKER

AFRICAN AMERICAN VICTIM OF LYNCHING
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  • Was born in 1936
  • Was arrested Feb, 23 1959 on charges of raping a white pregnant woman
  • Mississippi state trooper offered the woman's husband a gun to shoot him
  • 3 days before his trial he was abducted from County Jail by an angry mob
  • He was brutally beaten and shot to death
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  • On May 4, 1959 his body was found in the Pearl River in Louisiana
  • FBI investigated &obtained confessions from some of the white suspects
  • County prosecutor refused to present evidence to grand jury
  • Judge in the case encouraged the jury to return no indictment against killers
  • This incident was so significant it is considered one of the last civil rights era lynching
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Liz Montes