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SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.B: Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement; Rosa Parks

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. Rosa attended a segregated school and had to leave in 11th grade to take care of her sick mother and grandmother. At age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She earned her high school degree and joined the Montgomery chapter of NAACP.On December 1, 1955, after a long day's work at a Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. The bus was segregated with white in the front and colored in the back of the bus. Rosa boarded took a seat in the colored section of the bus and was asked to move when the white section was full. Parks refused and was arrested at the scene, because she didn't think she should have to move.Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus Montgomery, Alabama, spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. At Troy University in Tory, Alabama, the college library is dedicated to Rosa Parks and holds a museum in her memory. Work Cited:http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715 - April 2, 2015http://visitingmontgomery.com/play/rosa-parks-library-museum-childrens-wing - April 2, 2015

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