2. Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise Parks is “mother of the modern-day civil rights movement” in America. She defied segregation laws after not giving her seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama on Dec. 1, 1955, changing history to allow growth for black men and black women. Certainly, when one thinks of her she is associated with Black American rights, but she should be considered an activist for women too because she sets a standard for other women activists to follow.
She had already been in efforts to help free the “Scottsboro Boys,” in the 1930s. She and her husband Raymond Parks were extremely important to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) programs. When she was arrested, she was preparing for a major youth conference.
The married couple established The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development’s Pathways to Freedom program, helping the American Black youth. Not only that Mrs. Parks had received upwards of forty-three honorary doctorate degrees, hundreds of plaques, certificates, citations, awards and keys to many cities. In 1996 she was given the MEDAL OF FREEDOM, the greatest medal a civilian citizen can get, according to rosaparks.org.
There has been a critical error on your website.<\/p>
Learn more about debugging in WordPress.<\/a><\/p>","data":{"status":500},"additional_errors":[]}