By Queen Bohannon

LEADERS OF AMERICAROSA PARKS

The Beginning…..

Born: February 4, 1914 in Tuskegee, Alabama

James and Leona Edwards : Parents Educated early on at a Rural school After the age of eleven was

enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls

called Miss White School for Girls

She then went on to Alabama State Teacher’s College High School, however she didn’t receive her diploma until 1932 and Married the same year on December 18 to Raymond Parks

As time continue…THE MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS

MOVEMENT

Activist in the effort to free the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930 (dedication)

First female Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also known as NAACP

Youth Leader

Leadership Continues….Her Arrest

Worked in the Voter League preparing blacks to register to vote

Parks was well respected by everyone in her community, her arrest sparked what is known today as the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Boycott lasted for 381 days Dr. Martin Luther King was the

spokesperson

Accomplishments

Voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most Influential people of the 20th century.

A Museum and Library has been built in her honor

September 26, 1998 Mrs. Parks was the recipient of the first International Freedom Conductor's Award by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

February 4, 1999, Mrs. Rosa Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor if it passed the House of Representatives and the Senate by a majority

She received the NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in the Television series, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, "Black like Monica

Leadership Traits

Dedication Sacrifice

Helpfulness Responsible

“Sacrifices resulted in our TODAY”

“She sacrificed herself in order to make her hopes for the future become the realities of today. “

Her past continues in our Now

She Past away on October 25, 2005 at the age of 92

But ……