Rosa Parks

     Rosa Parks was a normal African American in America until she got famous by simply refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.  Rosa was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and died October 24, 2005 in Detroit Michigan.  She was taught to read by her mother and later went to Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery.  In the 11th grade Rosa went to the laboratory school for secondary education which was followed by Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes.  When she was 19 she married Raymond Parks. 

     When Rosa Parks got on the bus after a long day at work there got to be to many people on the bus she and three other African Americans were ordered to move for a white man.  The three other African Americans did but Rosa didn't.  The bus driver yelled again and Rosa looked at him and said no.  The bus driver said that he would call the police and have her arrested then Rosa said quietly that he could do that.  So the bus driver called the police and Rosa was arrested.  Four days later she was disorderedly conduct. 



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