Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks

• By Ki-Ki
• Avery

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Biography

• Rosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on
  February 4,1913.
• She died October 24,2005she was 92.
• She grew up in Pine Level, Alabama.
• Her parents were Leona McCauley and James
  McCauley.
• She only has one brother named Sylvester.

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Segregation

• Back in the 1900s, blacks were being
  discriminated by the whites.
• They couldnt go to the same places, they had
  separate schools, and other public buildings.

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Rosas Bus Trouble

• On the bus, blacks sat in the middle.
• One day the driver named James Blake demanded 4
  blacks to give up their seats.
• One being Rosa she did not give up her seat. She
  was too tired.
• So James got Rosa arrested.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Rosas arrest led to the end of segregation.
• Then the Montgomery bus boycott come into affect.
• This is when blacks stopped using the buses and
  walked.
• This made the bus company loose most of its
  benefits.

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Contributions to Society

• Because of Rosa, we are now able to sit on the
  bus without any trouble.
• There are not any sections for whites or blacks
  thanks to Rosa.

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The Outkast Delima

• Rosa Parks sewed the hip-hop group Outkast for a
  song they produced.
• She didnt like the lyrics to the song.

(Hook)Ah ha, hush that fussEverybody move to
the back of the busDo you wanna bump and slump
with usWe the type of people make the club get
crunk
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Wanna know why Rosa stayed on the bus?

• Get off da bus Rosa!!!!!!!!
• Cuz of big Mable

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Her Occupation

• Rosa was married to Raymond Parks. They married
  in December of 1932.
• Rosa was a member of the NAACP.
• The NAACP stands for the National Association for
  the Advancement of Colored People

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Interesting facts

• She was apart of the NAACP.
• 1965 she begins working for John Conyers Jr.

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Work cited

• Parks,Rosa.My Story. New York Dial Books,1992
• My Story Rosa Parks/ Scholastic.1996-2007
• Nobelman,Marc. Rosa Parks. Milwaukee Gareth
  Stevens inc.,2002
• Rosa Parks. Civil Rights Chronicle.Lincolnwood,ill
  inois Louis Weber,2003

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R.I.P
 
 

• We Miss You Big Rosa!!!!!!