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Content

black section

(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

white section

  • 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  • school for African Americans were overcrowded, no right education possibility, by the state promoted, outdated teaching material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"

  • member of voluntary base

  • 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
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