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FREE ROSA PDF Nikki Giovanni,Bryan Collier | 40 pages | 15 Sep 2008 | Square Fish | 9780312376024 | English | New York, NY, United States Rosa - Wiktionary The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of Rosa freedom movement". Blake 's order to relinquish her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled. Parks was Rosa the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Rosa 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 Rosa year, the first major Rosa action campaign of the post-war civil rights movement. Her case became bogged Rosa in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a November decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U. Parks' act of defiance Rosa the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international Rosa of resistance to racial segregation. She had recently attended the Rosa Folk Schoola Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She acted Rosa a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job, and received death threats for years Rosa. Shortly after the boycott, she moved to Detroitwhere she briefly found similar work. Rosa was also active in the Black Power movement and the support of political prisoners in the US. After retirement, Parks wrote her autobiography and continued to insist that the struggle for justice was not over and there was more work to be done. Upon her death inshe was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotundabecoming the thirty-first person to receive this Rosa. California and Missouri Rosa Rosa Parks Day on her birthday, February 4, while Ohio and Oregon commemorate the occasion on the anniversary of the day she was arrested, December 1. In addition to African Rosa, one of Parks' great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers a part- Native American slave. When her parents separated, Rosa moved with her mother to Pine Leveljust outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew Rosa on Rosa farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. They all were members of the African Methodist Rosa Church AMEa century-old independent black denomination founded by free blacks in PhiladelphiaPennsylvaniain the early Rosa century. McCauley attended rural schools [10] until the Rosa of eleven. Before that, her mother taught her "a good deal about sewing. She learned more sewing in school from the age of eleven; she sewed her own "first dress [she] could Rosa. Parks went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education, but dropped out in Rosa to Rosa for her grandmother and later her mother, Rosa they became ill. Around the turn of the 20th century, the former Confederate states had adopted new constitutions and electoral laws that effectively disenfranchised black voters and, in Alabama, many poor white voters as well. Under the white-established Jim Crow Rosapassed after Democrats regained control of southern legislatures, Rosa segregation was imposed in public facilities and retail stores in the Southincluding public transportation. Bus and train companies enforced seating policies with separate sections for blacks and whites. Rosa bus transportation was unavailable in any form Rosa black schoolchildren in Rosa South, and black education was always underfunded. Parks recalled going to elementary school in Pine Level, where school buses took white students to their new school and black students had to walk to theirs:. Rosa see the bus pass every day But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a Rosa world. Although Parks' Rosa recounts early memories of the kindness of white strangers, she could not ignore the racism of her society. When the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street in front of their house, Parks recalls her grandfather guarding the front door with a shotgun. Its faculty was ostracized by the white community. Repeatedly bullied by white children Rosa her neighborhood, Parks Rosa fought back physically. She later said: "As far back as I remember, I could never think in terms of accepting physical abuse without some form of retaliation if possible. InRosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery. In DecemberParks became active Rosa the civil rights movementjoined the Montgomery chapter of Rosa NAACP, and was elected secretary at a time when Rosa was considered Rosa woman's Rosa. She later said, "I was the only woman Rosa, and they needed a secretary, and I was too timid to say no. Rosain her capacity as secretary, she investigated the gang-rape of Rosa Taylora black woman from Abbeville, Alabama. Recy Taylor", launching what Rosa Chicago Defender called "the strongest campaign for equal Rosa to be seen in a decade. Although never a member of the Communist Partyshe attended meetings with her husband. The notorious Rosa case had been brought to prominence by the Communist Party. In the s, Parks and her husband were members of the League of Women Voters. Sometime soon aftershe held a brief job at Maxwell Air Force Basewhich, despite its location in Montgomery, Alabamadid not permit racial segregation because Rosa was federal property. She rode on Rosa integrated trolley. Speaking to her biographer, Parks noted, Rosa might just say Maxwell opened my eyes up. Politically liberalthe Durrs became her friends. They encouraged—and eventually helped sponsor—Parks in the summer of to attend the Highlander Folk Schoolan education center for activism in workers' rights and racial equality in Monteagle, Tennessee. There Parks was mentored by the veteran organizer Septima Clark. In Augustblack teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with Rosa young white Rosa while visiting relatives in Mississippi. Lee and Lamar Smith. The featured speaker was T. Howarda black civil rights leader from Mississippi who headed the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Parks was deeply saddened and angry at the news, Rosa because Till's case had garnered much more attention than any of the cases she and Rosa Montgomery NAACP had worked on—and Rosa, the two men still walked free. InMontgomery had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race. Conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. According to the law, no passenger would be required to move or Rosa up their seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available. Over time and by custom, however, Montgomery Rosa drivers adopted the practice of requiring black riders to move when there were no white- only seats left. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites. The sections were not fixed but were determined Rosa placement of a movable sign. Black people could sit in the middle rows until the white section filled; if more whites needed seats, blacks were to move to seats in the rear, stand, or, if Rosa was no room, Rosa the bus. Black people could not sit Rosa the aisle in the same row as white people. The driver could move the "colored" section sign, or remove it altogether. If Rosa people were already sitting in the front, black people had to board Rosa the front to pay the fare, then disembark and reenter through the rear door. For years, the black community had complained that the situation was unfair. Parks said, "My resisting being mistreated on the bus Rosa not Rosa with Rosa particular Rosa. I did Rosa lot of walking in Montgomery. One day inParks boarded a bus Rosa paid Rosa fare. She then moved to Rosa seat, but driver James F. Blake told her to follow city rules and enter the bus again from the back Rosa. When Parks exited the vehicle, Blake drove off without her. She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the "colored" section. Near the middle of the bus, Rosa row was directly behind the ten seats Rosa for white passengers. Initially, she did not notice that Rosa bus driver was the same man, James F. Blake, who had left her in the rain in Rosa the bus traveled along Rosa regular route, all of the white-only seats in the bus filled up. The bus reached the Rosa stop Rosa front of the Empire Theater, and several white passengers boarded. Blake noted that Rosa or three white passengers were standing, as the front of the bus had filled to capacity. He moved the "colored" section sign behind Parks and demanded that four Rosa people give up their seats in the middle section so that the white passengers could sit. Years later, in recalling the events of the day, Parks said, "When that white driver stepped back toward us, when Rosa waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night. By Rosa account, Blake said, "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.