Resiliency of Rosa Parks
By: Zhykiea Williford
Early Life & Education
- February 4, 1913 was the day Rosa Parks was birth, when she was little her parents separated and she stayed with her mother.
- After they separated they moved to Pine level, Alabama to live with Rosa's mother parents.
- When Rosa Parks turned 11 she started school at industrial school for girls, she graduated high; earn her degree at the age of 19 in 1933 and got her high school diploma in 1934.
- She also went to college called Alabama State Teachers College for Negros ("Rosa Parks Biography").
Life After School
- When Rosa Parks was 19 she got married
- To Raymond Parks
- They have married since December 18, 1932 for 84 years
- When they are with each other they do everything together, then years later her husband died August 19, 1977. ( "Academy of Achievement").
Raymond Parks who is Rosa Parks Husband
How Rosa Parks show Resiliency
- How Rosa Parks show resiliency
- Is that she wouldn't let anyone tell her what to do.
- When Rosa Parks was getting on the bus from a long days work; she had sat in one of the open seats.
- When one man got on the bus there were no more seats up front, and he he needed some where to sit so the bus driver told 2 people to get up including Rosa Parks.
- The 2 people got up except for Rosa Parks, when the bus driver told her to get up she refused to get up even though she was in the correct seat.
- The bus driver called the police, she was removed from the bus and she went to jail just because she wouldn't give up a seat that she was correctly in. ("Rosa Parks Biography").
When Rosa Parks was arrested
- She was 42 years old
- She got to jail they fingerprinted her
- She only spend roughly a day in jail
- She was fine $10 as well as a $4 court fee
- Edgar Nixon bailed Rosa Parks from jail
- The Montgomery bus boycott was successful. ("Rosa Parks Biography").
At the jail
Rosa Parks getting finger printed
Coming from work
Rosa Parks on the bus
Mug Shot
Rosa Parks mug shot before going to jail
Later in Life
- The day that Rosa Parks was arrested that day changed everything.
- As she got older and life went passed she was a legend to everyone.
- Rosa Parks had published 2 books "Quiet Strength" and "Rosa Parks: My Story".
- When Rosa Parks passed on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92
- She was diagnosed with Progressive dementia the previous year. ("Rosa Parks Biography")
Rosa Parks grave stone which is located at Woodland Cemetery, in Detroit, MI