Rosa Parks, a.k.a. Rosa Louise McCauley 1913-2005
Tuskegee, Alabama
Rosa Parks became famous for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white male passenger on December 1, 1955 and was arrested. Subsequently, protests erupted, and a bus boycott by the city of Montgomery, Alabama lasted 381 days, let by Martin Luther King Jr.
References
Images of police report and bus diagram retrieved from The National Archives. Web Page: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/. Retrieved on October 30, 2012.
(2005). ROSA PARKS. Retrieved October 30, 2012, from http://rosaparks.org/.
Tuskegee, Alabama
Rosa Parks became famous for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white male passenger on December 1, 1955 and was arrested. Subsequently, protests erupted, and a bus boycott by the city of Montgomery, Alabama lasted 381 days, let by Martin Luther King Jr.
References
Images of police report and bus diagram retrieved from The National Archives. Web Page: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/. Retrieved on October 30, 2012.
(2005). ROSA PARKS. Retrieved October 30, 2012, from http://rosaparks.org/.
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