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On December, 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. She was arrested for disorderly conduct. This lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted over a year until the Supreme Court found segregated public transportation to be unconstitutional and ordered Montgomery officials to integrate the service.

Many historians note December 1, 1955, as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the U.S.

From 1965 until her retirement, Rosa Parks worked for U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.

Resources in This Category

• Academy of Achievement: Rosa Parks

  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
  Biography and 1995 interview with audio and video.

• BBC News: US civil rights icon Parks dies

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4373794.stm
  BBC tribute to Rosa Parks including archive footage, photos, and link to an obituary.

• Cincinnati Enquirer: Rosa Parks Argues vs. Rap

  http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/05/05/loc_rosa_parks_argues_vs.html
  Article by Dan Horn about the arguments made before the U.S. Court of Appeals.

• CNN: Rosa Parks Honored with Congressional Gold Medal

  http://www.cnn.com/US/9906/15/rosa.parks.medal/
  Article and video coverage of the event with links.

• Grand Times: The Woman Who Changed a Nation

  http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
  Biographical article based on 1996 interview with Parks.

• Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott

  http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
  Tells the story of Parks' arrest on the 1st of December, 1955, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.

• Scholastic: Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights

  http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
  An online activity for grades 7 and 8 about Parks' arrest, the boycott, nonviolence, and the court ruling, with an interview.

• Time 100: Heroes and Icons: Rosa Parks

  http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
  Article by Rita Dove honoring Ms. Parks as one of the twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century.

• Washington Post: Washington Prepares To Pay Rosa Parks Rare Tribute at Capitol

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801029.html
  Becomes one of only 30 Americans ever honored with the pomp and ritual of a Capitol Rotunda viewing.

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