Rosa Parks Graphic Novel 1
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- MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
- “The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.”
- Bus segregation is unconstitutional!
- Finally!!!
- The Voting Rights Act establishes equal voting rights for African Americans.
- Learning of Parks’ arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by Black citizens on Monday, December 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest. The first day of the bus boycott was a great success, and that day they elected Martin Luther King Jr. as the MIA’s president.
- ROSA & RAYMOND PARKS INSTITUTE
- On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional; the 381-day boycott ended December 20, a day after the supreme court’s written order arrived in Montgomery. Rosa Parks, who had lost her job and experienced harassment all year, became known as “the mother of the civil rights movement.”
- ROSA PARKS: MY STORY
- “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.”
- The story of my life growing up in the south in the early 1900s when racism and segregation was law.... Most blacks just took the abuse in stride, but I fought back.
- Although bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional, Rosa Parks did not stop there. On March 25, 1965, Parks joins the march to Montgomery for equal voting rights for African Americans. Rosa Parks was then among those present to witness President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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- In 1987, Rosa Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, to serve Detroit’s youth. Her purpose for this was to help young people better understand the past and prepare for their futures.
- In the hopes to "educate and motivate youth and adults, particularly African American people, for self and community betterment."
- In 1992, Rosa Parks traveled to lend her support to civil-rights events and causes and wrote an autobiography, “Rosa Parks: My Story.”
- Finally, on June 15, 1999, Rosa Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. (other recipients have included George Washington, Thomas Edison, Betty Ford and Mother Teresa). Rosa Park's bravery and assertiveness is why she was a national symbol and was nicknamed "the mother of the freedom movement".
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