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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. She is known as the “mother of the civil rights movement.”.
Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL, Rosa Parks was raised by her mother and grandparents in Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandfather supported the Garvey movement and, when Klan violence escalated after World War I, would sit out on the porch with his shotgun to protect the family home. A 6-year-old Rosa would sometimes sit vigil with him.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks ( 4. helmikuuta 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama – 24. lokakuuta 2005 Detroit, Michigan) oli yhdysvaltalainen ihmisoikeusaktivisti, jota on luonnehdittu yhdysvaltalaisen kansalaisoikeusliikkeen äitihahmoksi. Etniseltä taustaltaan afroamerikkalainen Parks tuli kuuluisaksi jouduttuaan pidätetyksi Alabaman pääkaupungissa ...
5. Rosa and Raymond Parks Flat. In 1957, Parks moved with her husband and mother to join her brother Sylvester in Detroit. After the move, Detroit became the new center of Parks’s activism as well as her home until her death in 2005. Rosa and Raymond Parks Flat in Detroit was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
Bus. Date Made. 1948. Summary. Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. The flawless character and quiet strength she exhibited successfully ignited action in others.
Feb 19, 2016 · 1956: Rosa Parks, center, outside the courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was being tried on charges of leading “an illegal boycott” of Montgomery’s buses.
Rosa Parks nemcsak a bojkott kiváltásában játszott fontos szerepet, hanem felhívta a figyelmet az afroamerikaiak egyenlőségért való küzdelmére és a polgárjogi harcokra. King 1958-ban megjelent Lépések a szabadság felé című könyvében azt írta, hogy Parks letartóztatása nem kiváltotta, csak felgyorsította a tiltakozást.
