Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was born in Febuary 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.  During her childhood she had encountered mainy racial discrimination, and her grandparents were advocates for racial equality standing up the the worst of racial discrimination the Klu Klux Klan.  Rosa Parks was best known for her refusal in giving up her seat in a bus to a white person in Montgomery and later arrested by this action it sparked a city wide boycott that ending in a victory for all black Americans Rosa Parks was considered a national hero.  She stated "I knew I someone had to take the first step andi made up my mind not to move."  (information from: http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715     and       http://womenshistory.about.com/od/quotes/a/rosa_parks.htm

This is a picture of Rosa Parks in front of the bus that she took a stand

by: KH & SS