Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Movement Activist | Mini Bio | Biography — Transcript

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1. 0:05famous for her refusal to move to the back of  a segregated bus rosa parks became a symbol
2. 0:10of american civil rights rosa parks this is the  mother of the movement born in tuskegee alabama
3. 0:18on february 4th 1913 rosa parks became a member of  the naacp in 1943. parks actively worked for voter
4. 0:27registration and desegregation but on december  1st 1955 in montgomery alabama parks sparked a
5. 0:35national movement as an african-american woman she  was relegated to the back of the bus but the bus
6. 0:43became crowded with uh white customers and the bus  driver demands that she moves even further back
7. 0:50and she and three other people were being asked  to do this and then he said i'm going to call
8. 0:56the police basically and the other three got  up and moved back and she refused and the rest
9. 1:02is history when rosa parks was asked whether she  was tired that day she said i was not tired and
10. 1:10i was not old i was only 42 years old but what i  was tired of was giving in parks was arrested for
11. 1:21violating city ordinances after bailing her out of  jail and double aacp president edgar nixon seized
12. 1:28the opportunity and rallied an estimated 40 000  black commuters for a city-wide bus boycott people
13. 1:34are watching what's happening in montgomery  and 382 days later on december 20th 1956
14. 1:40montgomery's buses are desegregated by the order  of the supreme court so part of it is the unity
15. 1:46and the spirit that people maintained over more  than a year of staying off the buses part of
16. 1:52it is the galvanizing leadership of a very young  martin luther king so all of those kind of thrust
17. 1:57the boycott before the country in a way that  then provides an example of what is possible
18. 2:03after the bus boycott parks and her husband both  lost their jobs and were forced to move to detroit
19. 2:09michigan where parks worked as a seamstress  secretary and board member for planned parenthood
20. 2:15in 1996 parks earned the presidential medal of  freedom in 1999 time magazine chose rosa parks
21. 2:24as one of the 20 most influential people in the  20th century and their comment was by her simple
22. 2:32act of protest she galvanized a civil rights  revolution on october 24 2005 rosa parks died of
23. 2:42natural causes at the age of 92. she became the  first woman and second african american to lie
24. 2:48in state at the capitol rotunda in washington  d.c in 2013 president obama unveiled a statue
25. 2:55in the capitol building commemorating parks's  significance in history rosa parks was a badass
26. 3:03rosa knew that this lady with these little glasses  could represent something really extraordinary
27. 3:11that the average person the one that  you may not expect could be the hero