1. Finding Information and Taking Notes
Biography
Finding Information and Taking Notes

2. Name of Person
Rosa Parks Born Rosa McCauley

3. Birth
Feb. 4, 1913 Tuskegee, Alabama

4. Family
Married Raymond Parks Mother – Leona McCauley (teacher) Father – James McCauley (carpenter) Brother – Sylvester Parents got divorced

5. Education
Alabama State Teachers College Elementary school for black students Junior high Didn’t go to high school – no school in her town for black students Finished high school later at a local college

6. Interests
Civil rights

7. Jobs Seamstress Author Secretary of NAACP
On staff of John Conyers, Jr. (US Representative)
Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development

8. Accomplishments
Started a bus boycott by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger Caused the Supreme Court to declare segregation on buses unconstitutional Won Spingarn Medal for her work in civil rights Won the Presidential Medal of Freedom Won Congressional Gold Medal

9. Interesting Fact
Statue of her in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol Lived on a farm with her grandmother and helped out by picking vegetables Poor Remembered for her courage “If I were to wish for anything at all, I would wish for peace, happiness, and justice and equality for all persons, regardless of race.”

10. Death
Oct. 24, 2005 Funeral in Detroit

11. Sources of Information
World Book Student Biography for Beginners

12. Important Dates in Rosa’s Life
Event
1932
Married
1977
Raymond died
2005
Rosa died
1956
Segregation declared unconstitutional
1955
Rosa refused to give up her bus seat
1913
born
arrested
1955 – 1956
Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
1943 – 1956
Secretary of NAACP
1967 – 1988
Worked for John Conyers
1979
Won Spingarn Medal
1996
Presidential Medal of Freedom
1999
Congressional Gold Medal