Rosa Parks: First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks Zinka’s full name is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. He was born on February 4, 1913, in Alabama to a black family. Roza’s parents were separated. After which she stayed with her mother. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist.
This was when color discrimination had increased a lot in America. In America, when black people were discriminated against in law and other facilities. Similarly, in America’s public buses, there were separate seating areas for black and white people.
Rosa Parks is best known for the Montgomery bus incident. The Montgomery bus boycott was an incident that occurred on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks boards a bus in Montgomery. At that time, there was a law in Alabama that seats in buses were reserved separately for black and white people. Rosa Parks also sat in a seat designated for a black person. When all the seats on the bus were filled with black and white people, a white person got on the bus at the next stop, then the bus driver asked Rosa Parks to get up from her seat and give her seat to the white passenger, to which Rosa Parks Disagreed. Due to this, the matter reached the police and the police arrested Rosa Parks. And along with this arrest, Rosa Parks was also fined $14. The news of Parks’ arrest quickly spread across the city and Parks was released on bail by the ED the same evening. Mrs. Parks’ lawyers had filed a notice after Mrs. Parks was convicted by the city law at that time. The US District Court ruled in another case that racial segregation of public buses was unconstitutional.
This incident created a stir among the black people of Alabama. After this, black people boycotted Montgomery buses. This incident was named The Montgomery Bus Boycott. In this incident, Rosa Parks is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”.
The American organization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People helped inspire Rosa Parks and others in the black community to boycott the Montgomery buses. This boycott of buses continued for a year, in which Rosa Parks made her contribution. During this struggle, Rosa Parks faced many problems, she lost her job and started receiving death threats every day.
On December 5, 1955, black leaders founded the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). Through which the boycott was organized and directed under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
On December 5, 1955, about 40,000 people boycotted the bus service. Black people living in America took to the streets in Montgomery City demanding a boycott of buses. And African Americans demanded an end to the discrimination between black and white people.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks died on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92.
