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Who is the "mother for the movement of civil rights" ? - Coggle…
Who is the "mother for the movement of civil rights" ?
Personal Datas
born on February 4th, 1913 in Tugsekee, Alabama
Mother : Leona Mc Cauley, teacher Father : James Mc Cauley, carpenter
Jobs: seamstress and care worker
Husband : Raymond Parks, barber. A militant for civil rights
Died on October 24th, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan
Rosa Parks
[Standing up by sitting down]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYkIN93k1Gs
Her role in segregation struggle
On December 1st, 1955 (she is 42) while she is sitting in a bus, she spontaneously refuses to leave her seat to a white man.
After the driver called the police, she is arrested and accused of breach of the peace. She has to pay a 15 dollars'fine.
She appeals and decides with her lawyer to contest the constitutionnality of the segragationist law.
The young pastor Martin Luther King launches a boycott (which lasts 381 days) against the bus company Montgomery asking black people not tu use their buses.
The Supreme Court breaks the segregationist low declaring them anticonstitutional.
Her calling for civil rights
In 1964, the Jim Crow's laws are revoked through the Civil Rights Act forbidding any form of segregation.
She moves to Detroit and works with the team of the afro american Democrat John Conyers as from 1965 until her retirement in 1988.
The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development is created in 1977. Its goal is to organize buses visits around the important places for civil rights.
In 1995, she is decorated with the freedom presendential medal by Bill Clinton and with the golden medal from the Congress.
She stands at the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Segregation Context :
After Secession war in 1865, abolition of slavery.
American black people are granted the status of citizen.
The Jim Crow 's laws between 1876 and 1965 impose segregation in public places.
In 1896 the supreme Court legitimizes theses laws with the doctrine "separate but equal".
In restaurants and buses, black people are apart from white people.
In buses black people are at the back.
