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	Rosa Parks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to James and Leona McCauley, a carpenter and a teacher.
		Parks' coffin was flown to Montgomery, Alabama and taken in a horse-drawn hearse to the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, where she lay in repose at the altar, dressed in the uniform of a church deaconess, on October 29.
		Rosa Parks in the 1920 and 1930 Census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosa_Parks (6103 words)

	Rosa Parks, Biography
		On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
		When Parks was arrested on 1 December 1955, she was not the first African-American to defy Montgomery’s bus segregation law; however, she was the first to elicit a strong reaction from leaders in Montgomery who had been waiting for the right incident to launch a protest.
		Rosa Parks continued to be active in civil rights struggles throughout her life.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/parks_rosabio.htm (506 words)

	Rosa L. Parks
		Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
		Parks, for disregarding an order to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger galvanized a growing movement to desegregate public transportation, and marked a historic turning point in the African American battle for civil rights.
		Rosa Parks was the granddaughter of former slaves and the daughter of James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a rural schoolteacher.
	www.core-online.org /History/rosa_parks.htm (489 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		Parks, too, became active in the NAACP and was hired as secretary of the local chapter in 1943.
		By the late 1940s, she was named secretary of the Alabama State Conference of NAACP branches, and it was through this position that Parks came into contact with a number of civil rights leaders such as Ella Baker, A.
		The summer before her arrest, Parks traveled to Tennessee’s Highlander Folk School to attend a workshop titled “Racial Desegregation: Implementing the Supreme Court Decision.” It was there that she was inspired by Septima Clark, who had recently become head of Highlander’s innovative education program.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/parks_rosa.htm (814 words)

	Woodlawn Cemetery :: Woodlawn Cemetery Honors Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parks' final resting place should be a secure and dignified environment where generations can come to revere her memory.
		It was to honor Rosa Parks, and only to honor her, that we dedicated the mausoleum as the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel.
		Parks, and for her husband and mother who were buried elsewhere in the cemetery.
	sev.prnewswire.com /publishing-information-services/20060313/NYSA01211032006-1.html (395 words)

	The Rosa L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The award honors Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated Alabama bus to a white man. The act is regarded as the spark that ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
		The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation was established in 1980 by the Detroit Public Schools and The Detroit News as a tribute to Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., 35 years ago served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
		Parks is credited with sparking the modern civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala.
	rosaparksscholarshipfoundation.org /News.htm (11854 words)

	The world honors Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parks was first honored in her birthplace of Montgomery, Ala., from where she was flown to the nation’s capital and given the distinguished honor of being the first woman and the second Black person to lie in state at the Lincoln Memorial.
		Parks was carried from the museum to a 1947 vintage hearse to shouts of “Thank You!” and “We love you Rosa!” As the honor guard placed the coffin in the hearse, the crowd broke out in a chorus of the civil rights hymn, “We shall overcome.”
		Parks what made her not give up her seat, and she answered, “Emmett Till”—the 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while on summer vacation in Mississippi.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/printer_2258.shtml (750 words)

	2000 Honorees - Rosa Parks
		Parks grew up in the segregated society that she would later help topple.
		Parks' proudest accomplishments is the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, which she co-founded with Ms.
		Parks was honored in September 1998 with the dedication of the Rosa L. Parks Learning Center in Michigan.
	www.dom.com /about/education/strong/2000/rosaparks.jsp (338 words)

	TROY Montgomery: The Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to James and Leona McCauley.
		Parks boarded a bus and for the first time was allowed to sit in any unoccupied seat.
		On April 22, 1998, she attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Troy State University Montgomery Rosa Parks Library and Museum to be located on the spot she was arrested.
	montgomery.troy.edu /museum/parksbio.htm (474 words)

	Rosa L. Parks Memorial Service
		Parks was a member of St. Paul at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery Bus.
		Park's memorial service was held at St. Paul on October 30th.
		DVD copies of the Rosa Parks Memorial Service are available for a donation of $20.00 or more.
	www.stpaulamemontgomery.com /news.html (167 words)

	In repose, Rosa Parks is on equal footing - 11/03/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel, arguably the most imposing resting place at Woodlawn Cemetery.
		It was in Section 29, where her husband, Raymond Parks, and mother, Leona McCauley, were buried, in lots 14 and 12, respectively.
		Now Parks is up front, appropriately, in a place where she may still beckon by force of her example.
	www.detnews.com /2005/specialreport/0511/03/A10-370703.htm (730 words)

	TROY-Montgomery Campus: Rosa Parks Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The passing of Rosa Parks in Detroit on, October 25, 2005 was deeply felt by the Troy University family, as the University is home to the Rosa Parks Library and Museum, the only museum dedicated to the civil rights icon.
		Parks was a major figure in our nation's history, but she was also a member of our Troy University family.
		Rosa Parks is a symbol to all Americans to remain free.
	montgomery.troy.edu /museum (1018 words)

	Rosa L. Parks School of Fine & Performing Arts
		The mission of the Rosa Parks School of Fine & Performing Arts is to shape tolerant men and women who are able to make their voices count in our democracy and who will grapple with the challenges of our global society.
		Emphasizing the importance of the arts to all of humanity as well as their role in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial America, the school community stresses a well-rounded education based on the development of critical and creative thinking through activities which are personal, cross-disciplinary, and educationally rewarding.
		Rosa Parks School offers a traditional academic learning experience in an environment where creativity and the arts are alive and truly serve as the bridge to all of the disciplines and a window to the human condition.
	www.essentialschools.org /cs/cesc/print/ces_sp/179 (235 words)

	montgomeryadvertiser.com
		Drive through the neighborhood along Rosa L. Parks Avenue, and you'll catch a glimpse every now and then of what was one of Montgomery's most prominent areas for African Americans from the 1940s to the early'70s.
		But the area along Rosa L. Parks Avenue, which before its name was changed to honor the civil rights leader who lived there was called Cleveland Avenue, is just not the same.
		Like a lot of children who grew up on Rosa L. Parks Avenue in the 1940s, '50, '60s and '70s, Myrtis Ramsey and her brother, Robert A. Clayton, pictured with their father, Robert L. Clayton, center, left behind the neighborhood and moved elsewhere in the city.
	www.montgomeryadvertiser.com /specialreports/rosaparksave/storyV5rosamain24w.htm (1633 words)

	Rosa Parks Portal
		On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks changed America forever when she was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus.
		Parks was found guilty of disorderly conduct and that lead directly to the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.
		Parks was not the "quiet seamstress" as the media has often portrayed her.
	www.e-portals.org /Parks (1483 words)

	The My Hero Project - Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks, 92, Dies
		Parks, 84, became a symbol of the civil rights movement in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as law there required.
		Parks, an active member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat.
		Parks was a beloved aunt to 13 nieces and nephews.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Rosa_Parks_AP (1337 words)

	Woodlawn Cemetery :: Detroit Cemetery Honors the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement
		The Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel sits proudly at the front of this historic cemetery open to all who wish to pay tribute to the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement.
		Parks was entombed in the chapel after her passing on October 24, 2005.
		Parks had purchased for herself, near her husband and mother in the back of the cemetery, did not lend itself to the thousands of visitors who would come to revere her memory.
	sev.prnewswire.com /publishing-information-services/20060313/DEF00710032006-1.html (396 words)

	Life of Rosa Parks
		Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is known as the "mother of the civil rights movement" for turning the course of American history in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
		Search the ACORN library catalog to find books on the life of Rosa Parks, her correspondence with children, poems, and more.
		This fl history resource offers a biography of Rosa Parks and links to other related articles which may prove to be of interest in the study of slavery and civil rights in America.
	www.co.arlington.va.us /departments/Libraries/sites/LibrariesSitesRosaParks.aspx (374 words)

	Alabama Academy of Honor: Rosa Louise Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rosa Louise Parks, a native of Tuskegee, Alabama, and currently residing in Detroit, Michigan, was the recipient of more than 43 honorary doctorate degrees and hundreds of awards and citations.
		Parks served as secretary and later as youth leader of the Montgomery branch office.
		Parks was a member of the first graduating class on November 24, 1998.
	www.archives.state.al.us /famous/academy/r_parks.html (437 words)

	English Department Featured this Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The award for which the English Department honored her on 26 September, however, has a special place in her heart: the Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, presented to Nikki on 22 March by Troy State University and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
		Rosa Parks, whose stature and heroism in the Civil Rights Movement have in recent years been recognized both nationally and internationally, really started the Civil Rights Movement.
		Nikki Giovanni has written several poems about Rosa Parks, poems designed to correct the popular misperception that it was because her feet were tired that Mrs.
	athena.english.vt.edu /featured/giovanni.htm (591 words)

	Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute - "The Rosa Parks Story" on CBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rosa L. Parks, "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" is alive and well.
		Parks issued a statement at that time saying "He lived a long life and his loved ones will miss him."
		All inquiries about Dr. Park's health may be directed to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development by calling (313) 965-0606.
	www.rosaparks.org /pages/media_alert.html (143 words)

	The Rosa L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Parks, achieve their goals and overcome adversity through the support of higher education.
		Recipients of the $2,000, non-renewable scholarship are chosen for their outstanding academic achievement, community service, leadership, and commitment to the principles embraced by Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement.
		The Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2005, with a formal dinner and silent auction at the Henry Ford Museum the evening of Saturday, April 30.
	rosaparksscholarshipfoundation.org (170 words)

	Remembering Rosa Parks
		The Governor has proclaimed that United States flags throughout the state of Michigan and on Michigan waters be lowered from Monday October 31 until sundown on Wednesday, November 2 as a mark of respect for the memory and in honor of Rosa Parks.
		Parks’ many accomplishments, including receiving the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal which honored her as the “first lady of civil rights,” and the “mother of the freedom movement.”
		The decision to lower the flag in Parks’ honor was hailed by Congressmen John D. Dingell and John Conyers.
	www.michigan.gov /gov/0,1607,7-168--129264--,00.html (763 words)

	The Black Family Network
		Rosa Louis Parks passed away in her Detroit home due to natural causes.
		Parks is largely regarded as the Mother of the modern day Civil Rights movement, for sparking the boycott of the Montgomery, AL bus system, eventually leading to the end of legalized segregation in the United States.
		The Institute's Rosa L. Parks Learning Centers in Michigan and California, utilize an intergeneration model of "Pathways to Freedom" youth mentoring seniors in the acquisition of basic computer literacy.
	www.blackfamilynet.net /v2/event_display.php?id=328 (233 words)

	Mays Printing Inc.
		Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on
		Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for
		Rosa Parks is the first woman and civilian to lie in honor
	www.maysprinting.com /rosa_parks.htm (181 words)

	cbs11tv.com - Cemetery Prices Jump After Parks Buried
		The spaces in the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel were priced at $17,000 before the cemetery gave spots, for free, to Parks, her husband and her mother.
		Some of her relatives worry the prices might cheapen the legacy of the woman who began the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955.
		Parks' closest living relative, nephew William McCauley, said her burial was a "private matter, not a spectacle."
	cbs11tv.com /topstories/topstories_story_063171036.html (296 words)

	Martin and Rosa
		It seemed but only a blight moment later that Rosa refused to relinquish her seat to a person of a whiter color.
		But here, in a Southern place where Jim Crow was allowed to exist, Rosa Louise Parks had brushed her face across the face of Black History.
		Rosa Louise Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., they led the march that day.
	www.blackvillage.com /mrosa/mrosa.htm (304 words)

	New Jersey School Boards Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The school is devoted to furthering the creativity of its students by providing training in seven areas: commercial art, fine art, dance, drama, vocal music, instrumental music and creative writing.
		The Rosa L. Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts stands at the threshold of a new century with a mission and a philosophy of education that prepares it for the changing face of the community, nation and world.
		The school offers a traditional academic learning experience in an environment where creativity and the arts are alive and serve as the bridge to all disciplines.
	www.njsba.org /members_only/publications/school_leader/ndec991r.htm (243 words)

	Rosa Parks Boulevard
		Rosa L. Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus.
		Rosa Parks Boulevard was renamed in honor of Mrs.
		Parks her thoughts on the renaming of Twelfth Street.
	www.living-library.com /FreedomTour/RosaParks.html (287 words)

	Rosa Louise Parks
		A seamstress and long-time member of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her Dec. 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
		Fired from her job and unable to find work, Parks moved in 1957 to Detroit, where she remained active in the civil-rights movement and worked (1965–88) as an aide to Congressman John Conyers.
		Rosa Parks - Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks activist Born: 1913 Rosa Parks, an activist with the...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0837678.html (229 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
		Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
		Parks was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime." But she was the first to be arrested who was well know in the Montgomery African-American community.
		UPDATE: Rosa Parks passed away on the evening of October 24th 2005.
	www.holidays.net /mlk/rosa.htm (524 words)

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