Stand for something or
you will fall for anything.
a Rosa Parks tribute
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On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws. Parks' prominence in the community and her willingness to become a controversial figure inspired the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year, the first major direct action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement. Her case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle succeeded in November 1956.

“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”

Rosa Parks
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born: Rosa Louise McCauley
February 4, 1913
Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
died: October 24, 2005 (aged 92)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
resting place: Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
1913

Rosa Louise McCauley is born.

1943

Parks became active in the civil rights movement

1955

Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled

1980

She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors

2005

Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit.

Rosa Parks is placed into custody.

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