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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Rosa Parks
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Rosa Parks, trivia and information, including some useful details of life events will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Rosa Parks are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Accomplishments and reasons Rosa Parks is famous as the African American civil rights activist

  • Fact 2 - Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913
  • Fact 3 - The name of the parents of Rosa Parks were James McCauley, a carpenter and Leona McCauley, a teacher
  • Fact 4 - She was of African-American, Cherokee-Creek and Scots-Irish ancestry
  • Fact 5 - Rosa Parks Rosa was educated at Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (Miss White's School for Girls) and Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes
  • Fact 6 - Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber, at the age of 19
  • Fact 7 - In 1946 race riots erupted in the Southern states
  • Fact 8 - In 1947 "Freedom Riders" tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South
  • Fact 9 - Rosa Parks worked with the Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs
  • Fact 10 - Segregation was banned in interstate buses and waiting rooms
  • Fact 11 - In 1955 Rosa Parks bravely refused to give up her seat and was ejected from a racially segregated bus
  • Fact 12 - She was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger and fined $14
  • Fact 13 - Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress and then at Virginia University
  • Fact 14 - She became Deaconess in the AME Church in Detroit (African Methodist Episcopal Church)
  • Fact 15 - In 1967 race riots erupted and in 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated
  • Fact 16 - Rosa Parks received the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1987
  • Fact 17 - She published "Rosa Parks My Story"
  • Fact 18 - Rosa Parks received the Medal of Freedom and the the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Honor from President Bill Clinton
  • Fact 19 - She was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died on October 24 2005

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