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Rosa Louise McCauley, the maternal name for Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Soon after Rosa Park’s birth, her parents moved to an 160!acre farm where she spent her childhood.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks had finished her shift as a seamstress and was arrested for her refusal to give up her bus seat to a caucasian rider on her way home.
Upon hearing of the arrest, Martin Luther King, Junior worked with the Southern Christian Conference to coordinate a massive boycott of the segregated bus system. On December 5, Rosa Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, given a suspended sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs.
On November 13, 1956, the bus segregation case moved up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the District court ruling that segregation of buses was unconstitutional, thus ending the eleven months long Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On February 13, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents James and Leona McCauley both we’re former slaves were adamant advocates for civil rights. In 1932, Rosa Louise McCauley married NAACP member Raymond Parks, and changed her name to Rosa Louise McCauley Parks.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, on her way home from work, refused to give up her bus seat and was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. The arrest of Rosa Parks launched Martin Luther King, Junior’s Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1956, after the boycott ended, Rosa Parks took a bus ride for her first time since she was arrested in an unsegregated bus.
In 2015, 60 years after Rosa Parks was arrested, a historical marker commemorating the civil rights icon and the Montgomery Bus Boycott was established in Montgomery, Alabama.
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