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Rosa Parks

by Katherine from San Diego

My Rosa Parks Project (KD)
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Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She died October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. She was arrested in December 1, 1995. She helped fight for civil rights. She is important to the history of women. Not many women are important in history. She really changed history. She changed segregation.

Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter. Her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. She was named after her maternal grandmother. She liked fairy tales and Mother Goose rhymes when she was little.

She had many accomplishments. She earned the 1979 NAACP award Spingarn Medal, the 1992 Peace Abbey Courage Conscience award, the Michigan Woman’s Hall of Fame award in 1983. In 1987 Rosa and Raymond Parks founded their Institute for Self-Development.

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