Thursday, March 29, 2007

rosa parks

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. Rosa Parks worked in a office in Michigan. Then she retired in 1988. Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks in 1932, Raymond worked in a barber shop. In 1913 Rosa Parks stood up for herself. She sat down and refused to stand because she did not want to give her seat to a white man. Rosa parks died at 92 on October 24, 2005. Rosa Parks Congessional gold medal bears the legend ''mother of the modern day civil rights movement."


MM & LY

3 comments:

CSS Library said...

Nice job on your post. ~Mrs. P

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CSS Library said...

really cool blog rosa is so interesting. Im so glad about how many good things she did for the world!
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