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Facts about Rosa Parks

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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Rosa Parks
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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