Content
(black) and white section
Profile
Civil right
activity
- Profile
- Curriculum vitae
- Civil right activity
- Honoring and recognition
- Civil rights movement
- NAACP
- Time to change
- Racial segregation
- Ku-Klux-Klan
- Quotations
- Source
- Name: Rosa Parks
- Girl name: Rosa Louise McCauley
- Birth Date: February 4, 1913
- Place of Birth: Tuskegee, Alabama
- Parents: Leona McCauley, James McCauley
- Height: 1,60 m
- Education: Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery
- Occupation: Civil Rights Activist
- Husband : Raymond Parks
(married 1932–1977)
- Arrest: 1st of December, 1955 (Montgomery, Alabama)
- Death Date: October 24, 2005
- Place of Death: Detroit, Michigan
- December 1943: secretary at NAACP
- was member of African Methodist Episcopal Church
- they went after disposition and lifestyle
- 1. December 1955
- white passenger required clearing of reserved row
- others leave the place; Parks stays
- James Blake (bus driver) calls police
- Disturbance of the public rest
- consequence: Arrest
- penalty: 10 dollar and 4 dollar court fees
- Icon of civil rights movement
- object of threat and constant calls
- nervous breakdown from husband
Racial segregation
Curriculum vitae
- grown up with a brother ( Sylvester McCauley )
- her mother was teacher
- 1915: the father left the family
(moved in the north)
- up to 11 years, mother teaches her
- Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery
- 1932, married Raymond Parks
(Barber, civil rights activist)
- died: 19. August 1977
- Most time of her life she worked as a seamstress.
- 1957: went to Detroit
- 1995: public speaker of million-man-march in Washington D.C
- school for black and white people
- school for African Americans were overcrowded, no right education possibility, by the state promoted, outdated teaching material
- separate entrances, to e. g. , cinemas, restaurants, waiting rooms, public means of transportation
- Separation with the military:
- "white" and "black" units
- Black unity worse qualified, worse equipped, had a white commander
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist
Honoring and recognition
Civil rights
movement
- 1983: Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame for civil rights movement
- 1996: president Bill Clinton (Medal of Freedom)
- 1999: (Congressional Gold Medal of Honor) highest civil honoring in the US
- 2001: opening of Rosa Parks Library and Museums in Montgomery, Alabama
- 2005: public safekeeping before the funeral in the Capitol. George W. Bush ordered funereal decorating with flags arranged
- 2008: Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
- 2015: opening of RER - railway station in Paris
The Ku-Klux-Klan
NAACP
- racist and violently active secret society
- foundation: 24. December 1864
- suppression of the blacks
- physical attacks up to murder
- 1909 from Web du Bois founded
- "National Association for the Advancement of colored people"
- to supported Rosa parks and the Busboycott
- till today one of the most important organizations of human rights of the USA
Time to change
- situation got worse increasingly
- more and more went from the south to the east of the country
- ghettos in city's like Chicago, Boston and New York City
- the problem was not to be ignored by cases like Little Nine rock and Rosa park and any more
Source
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks
- https://www.helles-koepfchen.de/artikel/1427.html
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rassentrennung
- http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
- http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku-Klux-Klan