Rosa Parks was a black lady. She was born on February 4, 1913. She attended Industrial School For Girls in Tuskegee, Alabama, and later attended Alabama State Teachers College For Negroes. When she was a baby, Rosa´s parents separated. Her mother went to live with her parents. Rosa spent most of her childhood with her grandparents. She learned about racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. Once, she saw her grandfather out on the porch holding a shotgun while members of Ku Klux Klan marched down the street.
In 1932, Rosa Parks(her last name wasn´t Parks yet, it was McCauley. Her last name was changed and will be explained in the next sentence) met a barber and an active member of the NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) named Raymond Parks. She married him, and in 1933, with her husband´s support, she got her high school degree.
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. Before laws were changed in 1964, she was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man 9 years early, on December 1, 1955. This led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Black people would refuse to get on the bus and walked instead. This lasted 381 days, until December 21, 1956, when the Montgomery´s buses were integrated, thus the end of the boycott.
After MLK Jr.´s I Have A Dream speech on August 28, 1963, laws were changed, and now black people had the same rights as white people. No more boycotts, no more riots. This was how things were (until George Floyd died, causing BLM to surge again in 2020). Rosa Parks lived until October 24, 2005. She died in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 92.
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