1. The Life of Rosa Parks
By: Alli Ferrara
EDCI 270 Web 2.0 Project

2. Who was she?
A civil rights activist born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Her parents got divorced at a young age and her mother up and left with her to live with family in Pine Level, Alabama.
Rosa was educated by her mother in her younger years and was then taught at a one-room schoolhouse for blacks only.
Rosa was then moved to segregated schools in Montgomery, Alabama where one of which she attended was the Industrial School for Girls when she was 11 years old.
While in the 11th grade in 1929, Rosa Parks dropped out of school to aid her mother and grandmother while they were ill and never went back to her studies. But rather, she worked a job in a factory as a shirt maker.

3. Later In Life…
At the young age of 19 years old, Rosa met the love of her life whom she ended up marrying, Raymond Parks.
After marrying Raymond, Rosa went back to her studies and received her high school diploma in the year of 1933.
“She soon became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon—a post she held until 1957.”

4. Her Bold Stand
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus to go home after a long day’s work.
The bus began to fill up and the bus driver saw that there were white passengers standing in the aisle.
The bus driver got up and moved the segregation line back one row and asked four colored passengers to give up their seats for a white passenger. Three said yes, but Rosa Parks said no.
Rosa Parks did not give up her seat because she was “tired of giving in.”
The bus driver called the police who then arrested Rosa Parks for standing up for herself and her fellow African-Americans.
“The police arrested Rosa at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. She was taken to police headquarters, where, later that night, she was released on bail.”

5. Repercussions
Because of her bold stand on the segregated busses, the Montgomery Bus Boycott then occurred.
After her arrest, her job was taken away and her husband was also fired from his job, as well.
She and her husband were discriminated against for her standing up in what she believed in and knew was right.

6. Lessons Learned
Rosa Parks left behind a legacy that is to be learned from for years to come.
Because of her stance, Rosa Parks received many awards and recognitions throughout her lifetime.
“On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan.”
“At her centennial celebration, President Barack Obama unveiled a statue honoring Parks in the nation's Capitol building. He remembered Parks, according to The New York Times, by saying "In a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world And today, she takes her rightful place among those who shaped this nation’s course.””

7. Works Cited
Rosa Parks Biography (Civil Rights Activist ). (n.d.). Retrieved March 7, 2015, from
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