Rosa Parks Biography

Rosa Parks real name was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was born in Alabama in Tuskegee on February 14, 1913. Rosa Parks moved to Montgomery, Alabama when she was 11 and attended high school. She went to an laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She later dropped out of school when she was 16 to take care of her sick grandmother and eventually her long-term ill mother. Rosa got married to Raymond Parks when she was 19 years old. Raymond was self educated and was a continuing member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as NAACP. The NAACP was established in 1909 in NYC by a group of activists. Both Rosa and raymond became an honored member of the Montgomery’s largest African-American
It was written that the front of the bus was saved for white citizens, while the seats in the back were for black citizens. When a white man entered the bus, there were no more seats in the front reserved section. Nonetheless, the bus driver told the front row riders of the colored section to move so that the white man can sit. The three colored people followed orders while Rosa Parks did not move. Because Rosa Parks did not obey the bus driver’s orders, two police officers came and stopped the bus. The officers took Rosa Parks into custody because she did not move when the driver told her so. The word of her incarceration spreaded quickly and President Nixon was with Rosa when she was released on bail. There was an idea that sparked after the Parks’ and Nixon had a conversation. They had the idea to have a Montgomery boycott with the buses on the day Rosa had the trial, which was on December 5th. The community spread the word out by passing out flyers to the black students so that they can inform their family about the boycott. Rosa Parks was trialed as guilty because she violated segregation laws and was given a suspended sented with a fine of more than