Rosa parks biography

Kamry Wright

February 25, 2009

Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932, and they remained married until his death in 1977. They had no children. Raymond Parks was born in 1903... Her hometown of Tuskegee, Alabama was home to the Tuskegee Institute, which was led for many years by Booker T. Washington. He died in 1915, two years after Parks was born... Park’s bus ride was remindful, of Homer Plessy's refusal to leave an all-white rail car in Louisiana in 1892.In 1955; Rosa Parks was an African-American living in Montgomery, Alabama -- a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. On 1 December 1955, after her day of work as a seamstress at a department store, Parks boarded a city bus. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver called police, and Parks was arrested and fined. The following, bus boycott by African-Americans, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., The boycott was a success and led to desegregation in Montgomery and elsewhere in the United States. Over time, Parks became a national idol of civil rights and African-American pride. Parks worked as an assistant to Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. from 1966 until her retirement in 1988, and she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in 1987. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1996. A few years later on October 24, 2005 she died in her home in Detroit.