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rOSA pARKS
Title: rOSA pARKS
Category: Society & Culture / People
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rOSA pARKS
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was born on February 4,1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She
was a civil rights leader. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a
seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter,
and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one
younger brother named, Sylvester.
Her family lived in Tuskegee. When Rosa was two years-old her parents
split up and she, her mother, and her brother …showed first 75 words of 928 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 928 total…as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965
she was hired by Congressman John Conyers, Jr., also a cvil rights leader, to
manage Detroit office. She remained active in the NAACP and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1987 she founded the Rosa and
Raymond parks Institute for Self Development, offering Guidance to young
blacks She won the NAACP's Spingman Medal (1970) and the Martin King Jr.
Award (1980), as well as an honorary degree from Shaw College.
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