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	Reflection and Tribute
		Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley was the daughter of Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a farmer and carpenter.
		Rosa Parks greatly advanced the urgency of this just cause and she will be remembered as one of the true champions of inalienable human rights and dignity for all Americans.
		Rosa Parks is now a part of the honored gallery with other righteous freedom fighters; her life and legacy a centerpiece of the ultimate triumph of conscience and non-violence over injustice and inequality.
	www.sikhpoint.com /community/Kpsingh/ATributeToMissRosa.php (701 words)

	Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosa was not happy about dropping out of school, but she realized it was her responsibility to take care of her grandmother, and then her mother when she became ill.
		Rosa knew better than that and on her second try she wrote down all the answers she had written on the 21 question test so she could fight not getting a card the second time, but she didn’t need to worry because she passed the second test and received her card.
		Rosa is well known for refusing to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, but has been very active all her life in the Civil Rights Movement.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112391/rosa_parks.htm (1865 words)

	Rosa Parks and the Rosa Parks Biography
		On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for disregarding an order to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger.
		Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
		Rosa Parks was widely known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, but her iconic stature afforded her little financial security.
	www.africanaonline.com /rosa_parks.htm (1027 words)

	IMA Hero: Reading Program Rosa Parks
		Rosa Parks was born Rosa McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913.
		When Rosa was still a baby, her family moved to Pine Level, Alabama, and lived on the farm of Rosa's grandparents.
		Rosa had to leave school to take care of her grandmother and mother when they were ill. Rosa finished high school in 1933.
	www.imahero.com /readingprogram/rosaparks.html (1122 words)

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		Durr assisted in challenging the city of Montgomery when he and Rosa Parks's attorney, Fred Gray, formed the case for Parks who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
		In December 1955, Virginia and Clifford Durr bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on one of the city's segregated buses.
		Rosa Parks had to pay a poll tax of $16.50 when she became registered to vote in 1945, as she was 32 years old.
	www.kidsnet.org /cbs/rosaparks/glossary/glossary_html.html (3121 words)

	Facts about Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born into a society where racial discrimination is perceived as righteous, Rosa Parks radically changed the national perception of equality and she became the trigger for the civil rights movement in the United States.
		Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
		Rosa Parks was given the verdict of guilty for a disorderly conduct and was fined.
	www.hotfact.com /facts-about-rosa-parks.html (458 words)

	Social Movement Leader Bio
		Rosa's goal in working for these groups is to have her Civil Rights along with all of her other group members and her whole race.
		Rosa "told herself she must not think too deeply of what might happen to her because she feared she might give up her seat, but I choose to remain." Rosa is then arrested and asked many questions by the police and answered each in a very calm, polite manner.
		Rosa continues to use her innovational philosophy with a radicalist approach when she was taken to jail.
	www1.appstate.edu /~clarkne/socm/bios/parks.htm (1164 words)

	Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Rosa Gerhardt
		Rosa Gerhardt was the fourth of nine children born to Marcus and Esther Gerhardt.
		Rosa's independent nature and confidence in her abilities helped her to overcome any obstacles presented by the male-dominated profession she had chosen to join.
		Her legacy as one of Alabama's pioneers in the legal profession lives on, especially in those who were fortunate enough to benefit personally from her expertise and guidance.
	www.awhf.org /gerhardt.html (486 words)

	Apple - Hot News - Rosa Parks
		Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Parks was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley; her brother Sylvester was born in 1915.
		From there Rosa went on the Alabama State Teacher’s College High School, although her grandmother’s illness and subsequent death prevented her from graduating with the rest of her class.
		Rosa became a secretary and later a youth leader of the local branch of the NAACP; she was preparing for a major youth conference at the time of her arrest.
	www.apple.com /hotnews/articles/2005/10/rosaparks (582 words)

	Rosa Parks
		Indeed: Even as a dreamy, mild-mannered young girl, Rosa McCauley had found the fl pulpit intoxicating in the openness it accorded preachers to weave the joyous exaltations and heartrending laments that were legacies of the West African culture passed down from generations of slaves to the sharecroppers of 1920s Alabama.
		Rosa's father, James McCauley, hailed from Abbeville, Alabama, a farm town ninety-five miles south of Montgomery known for its wood pulp and cotton gins.
		Rosa Parks remembered how her grandfather responded to the threat by keeping a double-barreled shotgun close at hand at all times, loaded and ready for the first hooded bigot who trespassed onto his property.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/brinkley-parks.html (3886 words)

	Rosa’s Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the time of the boycott Rosa Parks had a job as a seamstress and had been residing in the NAACP for over 10 years.
		When the bus comes to one of it’s stops the bus fills with more white people and Rosa and the other people sitting in her row are ordered to move to the back of the bus.
		Rosa Parks is still alive and residing in Michigan.
	www.musd20.org /rosa_parks/Parks_files/page0001.htm (379 words)

	Rosa Parks \| Scholastic.com
		Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States.
		As Rosa prepared to return to Alabama State, her mother also became ill. Therefore, she remained home to care for her mother while her brother worked outside to help support the family.
		A quiet exemplification of courage, dignity, and determination, Rosa Parks is a symbol to all Americans to remain free.
	content.scholastic.com /browse/article.jsp?id=4965 (768 words)

	GRANDtimes.com Senior Magazine & Portal Site
		When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years ago on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work.
		Rosa Parks was physically tired, but no more than you or I after a long day's work.
		Rosa Parks spends most of her year in Detroit but winters in Los Angeles.
	www.grandtimes.com /rosa.html (984 words)

	Rosa Alabama Resource Guide, City or community of Rosa, Alabama Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, Advertising
		The population of Rosa is approximately 139 (1990).
		The distance from Rosa to Washington DC is 649 miles.
		Rosa is positioned 33.98 degrees north of the equator and 86.50 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /alcountyrosa.htm (252 words)

	Rosa Parks: A 50th Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The boycott was precipitated by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat in favor of a white passenger.
		The Rosa Parks case is considered the landmark because it applied to all segregationist laws, not just those affecting interstate commerce.
		The Rosa Parks Library and Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, was dedicated in November 2001.
	www.evergreen.edu /library/GovDocs/hotopics/rosaparks/index.html (953 words)

	The Epoch Times \| After 50 Years, Alabama Pardons Rosa Parks
		The Alabama state legislature voted to pardon Rosa Parks, the civil rights hero who refused to yield her seat on the bus to a white man, 50 years after the event took place in Montgomery, Alabama.
		The "Rosa Parks Act," approved unanimously by the state House of Representatives but opposed by three senators in the Senate, also clears the way for hundreds of other activists to wipe out their arrest records for acts of civil disobedience in the struggle for fl civil rights.
		The Alabama Senate revised the act to allow museums to continue to display such arrest records as well as a famous mug shot of Parks, who died last October at the age of 92.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-4-19/40562.html (384 words)

	Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosa was born in February 4, 1913 in Alabama.
		Rosa Parks went to school at the fl elementary school in her town.
		Rosa left school because of a death in her family.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/parks2.html (187 words)

	Rosa, Alabama
		Rosa, Alabama, in Blount county, is 36 miles NE of Birmingham, Alabama and 123 miles W of Atlanta, Georgia.
		Rosa is considered a town for married couples and families.
		Rosa is regarded in the state as a town where many of the people are well-off.
	www.citytowninfo.com /places/alabama/rosa (328 words)

	An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks
		On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman took a seat on the bus on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress.
		Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses.
		On the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, the front 10 seats were permanently reserved for white passengers.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/rosa-parks (824 words)

	Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to James and Leona McCauley.
		When Rosa was two her mother moved the family to her grandparents farm in Pine Level, Alabama.
		Rosa was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man on a Montgomery public bus.
	multirace.org /firstday/first28.htm (313 words)

	Rosa Parks
		Born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley was the eldest of two children born to James and Leona McCauley.
		Being a teacher, Leona taught Rosa at home until 1924, when at the age of 11, she was sent to live with her aunt in Montgomery, Alabama, to continue her education.
		Rosa Parks Portrait of Rosa Parks on display on the 3rd floor of the Alabama Department of Archives and HistorRosa Parks Portrait of Rosa Parks on display on the 3rd floor of the Alabama Department of Archives and HistorRosa Parks on display on the 3rd floor of the Alabama Department of Archives and History Museum.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1697.html (782 words)

	Rosa Parks
		Rosa and her husband were active in civil rights causes such as voter registration for fls.
		Rosa refused and the bus driver stopped the bus, brought in some policemen and had her taken to the police headquarters.
		In 1957, Rosa and her family decided to move to Detroit, Michigan because they had been fired from their jobs for protesting.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /KingsParkES/technology/bios/parks.htm (537 words)

	Rosa Parks
		Rosa remembered living in fear when she was a child as a result of the insults and prejudices against people of her race.
		On December 1, 1955 after a hard day at work, Rosa was riding the bus home when the driver asked her and three fl men to move to make more room in the white section.
		Rosa lost her job and was unable to get another one in Montgomery.
	gardenofpraise.com /ibdrosa.htm (1307 words)

	rBau Express :: Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosa Parks Newspaper being offered by newspaper hawkers-This photograph was taken the morning of her memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.
		This Rosa Parks Bus picture is significant because it was the bus that was sitting in the front of the Rosa Parks Memorial in October.
		Rosa Parks Caison- Horse and Carriage- Montgomery, Al- Neat and historic photograph of the caison that carried Mrs.
	www.giftgiving.biz /home.php?cat=284 (320 words)

	Rosa - Children's Books
		Rosa Parks and the other ladies in the department are working long hours.
		Rosa by Nikki Giovanni conveys the quiet strength of the small woman from Alabama.
		Rosa Parks is tired of the “Colored” this and that.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art21186.asp (275 words)

	U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican - ALABAMA
		Rosa Parks is the first woman to lie in the Capitol Rotunda, which is a testament that her actions are just as significant today as they were in 1955.
		Parks once remarked that her show of defiance to move to the back of the bus was simply because she was tired of being humiliated, tired of following archaic rules forbidding her from sitting in the front of a public bus or entering public buildings through the front door.
		Rosa Parks' gumption resulted in a 382 day boycott of the city bus system let by a young 26-year-old preacher, new to town, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, a block from the Capitol--A Capitol building proudly known as the First Capital of the Confederacy.
	sessions.senate.gov /pressapp/record.cfm?id=248184 (2343 words)

	Rosa Town, AL - Information & Resources about Town of Rosa Alabama
		Rosa is a town located in Blount County, Alabama, United States.
		Rosa is located at 33°59'25" North, 86°30'47" West (33.990278, -86.513333).
		Rosa is located in the Central Standard Time (CST) timezone, GMT-06:00.
	www.eachtown.com /city_info.php/cityid/964 (112 words)

	Rosa Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parks then went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education, but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother, and later for her mother, after they became ill.
		In the evening the casket was transported to Washington, D.C. and taken, aboard a bus similar to the one in which she made her protest, to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda (making her the first woman and second African American ever to receive this honor).
		Rosa Parks in the 1920 and 1930 Census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosa_Parks (6035 words)

	CNN.com - Parks felt 'determination cover my body like a quilt' - Oct 25, 2005
		MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Rosa Parks was a mite of a woman who cast a mighty shadow.
		Quiet, unassuming, shy, she appeared to be the antithesis of the symbol of a worldwide movement.
		Yet her simple action and strong determination embodied the power of the civil rights movement that was born after she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus on December 1, 1955.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/10/25/parks.greenhaw (759 words)

	Special report - Rosa Parks: Mother of the Movement - The Detroit News Online11/3/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rosa!" packed the sidewalks and the entrance to Woodlawn Cemetery on Wednesday night as the body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks made its way to its final resting place.
		DETROIT -- Rosa Parks' final resting place will not be open to the public, cemetery officials said, although people wishing to stroll the grounds near where Parks is entombed won't be turned away.
		In Alabama, Rosa Parks memorial is part reunion, part call-to-arms
	www.detnews.com /specialreports/2005/rosaparks/index.htm (277 words)

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