Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks

• Mother of The Civil Rights Movement

By Madeline Haynes
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Picture taken at the Rosa Parks Museum in
Montgomery, Alabama.
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In 1955, when my grandmother was ten years old,
she went to visit cousins in Stone Mountain,
Georgia. They wanted to go see a picture show
in Atlanta and had to ride a bus to get there.
My grandmother, who came from a small, rural town
in South Carolina had never ridden on a city bus
before. Back in South Carolina, her closest
playmates were the children of Curly Moore, a
black man who helped her daddy get the fields
ready for planting every year in the spring.
When her mother fixed dinner and called for the
men to come eat, Mr. Moore would tell her daddy,
Ill just wait for you out here while you eat
Mr. Mack. Her daddy would reply, If youre
good enough to walk beside me in the field,
youre good enough to put your feet under my
table and eat with me. So, she had learned
fairness and kindness for all people by her
daddys example and when black people were
treated unfairly on the bus that day in Atlanta,
my grandmother was sad and confused. Little did
she know that a woman named Rosa Parks was about
to set about a chain of events that would change
the future of all races forever.
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This is my grandmother, Pat Bradley, when she was
seven years old.
This is my grandmothers daddy standing beside
his plow mule Dolly.
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Curly Moores family with my grandmother, Pat
Bradley.
Curly Moore
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Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913
in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother was a school
teacher and her father was a carpenter and house
builder.
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Rosa Parks Experiences Segregation Growing Up

• Rosa and Sylvester, her brother, went to a school
  for black children that only had one room.
• White children went to a bigger and better
  school.
• White children had a bus to take them to school,
  but there was no bus for the black children.
• Black children had to walk to school.
• Sometimes the white children on the bus would
  throw out trash and laugh at the black children
  walking to school.

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As A Child, Rosa Was Brave And Stood Up For
Herself

• When Rosa was ten years old, she stood up to a
  white boy named Franklin who was always picking
  on her and Sylvester. She picked up a brick and
  threatened to hit him with it because he tried to
  hit Sylvester. The white boy backed up and
  looked around for someone to help him. This made
  Rosa feel powerful and strong. When she got home
  and told her story, she got in trouble. Instead
  of being proud of her, her grandmother and mother
  were unhappy with her for being disrespectful to
  the white boy. This is when Rosa learned how
  unfair life was for black people and decided that
  she didnt like it.

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Rosas Feelings About Racism

• Rosa refused to use segregated water fountains.
• Rosa chose to take the stairs instead of using
  segregated elevators.
• Rosa believed all people were children of God so
  racism was un-Christian.
• Rosa believed racism was un-American because the
  Constitution says all people should be treated
  equally.
• Rosa believed racism was silly because even her
  light skinned grandfather had been thrown out of
  a political meeting for blacks because they said
  he was too white.

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Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks, a barber, in
December of 1932.
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National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People

• The National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People is an organization that works to
  end unfair treatment of African Americans and
  others.
• Raymond Parks was a member of the NAACP for many
  years before marrying Rosa.
• Rosa Parks joined the NAACP after she married
  Raymond.
• At her first NAACP meeting, Rosa was the only
  woman there and she was elected to be the
  secretary of the Montgomery chapter.

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Rosa Parks Gets Arrested

• On December 1,1955, Rosa was coming home from her
  job at a department store.
• She got on a crowded bus and sat down in the
  middle section, which was ok for black people to
  do as long as no white people were standing.
• At the next stop, more white people got on the
  bus and had to move to the middle section.
• The bus driver told four African Americans in
  Rosas row to get up and move to the back.
• They all moved except Rosa.
• The bus driver called the police and Rosa was
  arrested.

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Bus Boycott of Montgomery, Alabama

• Rosa Parks decision not to give up her seat on
  the bus and her arrest caused all black people in
  Montgomery to refuse to ride the city busses.
• The bus boycott lasted for 381 days.
• The case was taken all the way to the Supreme
  Court of The United States. No longer did black
  people have to give up their seats on busses to
  white people. Black people had won this battle
  in the fight for civil rights.

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The Rosa Parks Museum
In December 2005, I visited the Rosa Parks Museum
in Montgomery, Alabama with my family. I saw a
reenactment of the day Rosa Parks was arrested.
The museum was built to show people what Rosa
Parks and other black people experienced and to
honor her memory. At the museum, I learned that
Rosa Parks cared for other people and not just
herself.
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Pictures from my visit to the Rosa Parks Museum
in Montgomery, AL
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This is me sitting beside a statue of Rosa Parks
on a bus seat.
This is me standing in front of a quilt about
Rosa Parks life that was on display at the
museum.
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The Alabama Historical Commission presented this
exhibit 381 Days, The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Story at the Rosa Parks Museum from December 2,
2005 to January 14, 2006.
A tri-fold on display in the gift shop at the
museum.
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Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at the age of
92. She will always be remembered as a woman of
quiet strength, faith, dignity, and love.
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Bibliography

• A Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David Adler,
  illustrated by Robert Casilla
• I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins,
  illustrated by Wil Clay
• Rosa Parks Young Rebel by Kathleen Kudlinski,
  illustrated by Meryl Henderson
• Rosa Parks by Kenneth C. Davis