Rosa Parks' Questions and Answers
Q.) When was Rosa Parks Born?
A.) She was born on February 4, 1913.
Q.) Where was Rosa Parks born?
A.) Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Q.) What are the names of
her family?
A.) James McCauley and Leona McCauley are her parents. She also had a brother
named Sylvester.
Q.) When did Rosa had a difficult
time in her life?
A.) When Rosa was two her father abandoned her and her brother. After that
they moved to her grandmothers house. Her parents and grandparents were sick
and Rosa had to do the cooking and cleaning. She also had to do the shopping
and sewing.
Q.) Who did Rosa Parks marry?
A.) When Rosa was 20 she married Raymond Parks.
Q.) What jobs did she have?
A.) She had a sewing job. She also became a member of the NAACP(National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People), and later she joined a group called
Voters League.
Q.) What happened on December
1, 1955 that was so important in her life?
A.) On December 1, 1955, Rosa was riding the bus home from a long day at work
when a white man got on the bus and told her row to move. The other people
in her row moved to the back of the bus, but Rosa didn't move.
The police were called and Rosa was arrested. She went to court and was let
with a fourteen dollar fine. Rosa didn't pay her fine and a bus boycott was
started. Most of the people that rode the bus were African American, the company
lost a lot of money. After the bus boycott ended the busses were desecrated.
Q.) When did Rosa's husband,Raymond,
die.
A.) Rosa's husband died in 1977.
Q.) When did Rosa start the
Rosa and Raymond Institute
A.) In 1987,she opened Rosa and Raymond Parks
Institute
Q.) When did Rosa Parks retire?
A.)In 1988, she retired.
Q.) What awards did Rosa Parks
win?
A.) She won the Martin Luther King award and the NAACP's Springam Medal.
Q.) What awards did Rosa Parks
win?
A.) She won the Martin Luther King award and the NAACP's Springam Medal.
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