Rosa Parks -Biography

"Those who insult us are not good, I worked so hard" -Roja Parks

Rosa was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuscany, Alabama. Father carpenter, mother teacher. Her grandparents were slaves. Her childhood was spent in the darkest days. The worst days of racism. Blacks do not even have access to public places. At the age of 11, she enrolled as a student at the Industrial School for Girls in Monte Gomera. That is the government self-taught the school where black people go to school and that is the inspiration for her later life. Her education enhanced her personality and taught her what morality is. She always had a strong desire to correct the mistakes of society. She then attended Alabama State Teachers College. She went to care for her ailing grandmother before finishing school. There she made contact with Raymond Parks, a member of an organization that seeks to promote black descent, and married him. The couple has worked for many years for the development of African-American citizens. In 1931 a case of rape was registered against 9 black boys and they fought on their behalf. They were sentenced to death for agreeing that an accused woman, who had ample evidence that the allegations against them were baseless, would not lie. They were released after more than 20 years of pleading. An important event in her life took place on December 1, 1955. As she was riding on a bus a white man asked her to vacate the seat where she was sitting. Tired, she refused. That is why she was taken, hostage. The incident affected the feelings of blacks who had been enjoying it for a long time before. That was the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in America. When someone interviewed me about the incident in 1995, she said she did not remember my experience but her anger at the time but my intention was to convey the sentiments of people who have been subjected to racism for a long time and to see how black people respond to the incident. It is true that the incident caused a sensation and a group formed under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stopped the bus journey for 182 days and all the buses came to a standstill. With the intervention of the Supreme Court, the buses started turning back but equal justice was done in the buses traveling by the public. In 1957, Roja and Raymond joined Detroit to continue their civil rights movement. Due to financial difficulties, Roja joined Conyers Jr. as an assistant in the administration department. After the death of her husband in 1977, Roja founded a self-help organization. The main function of this organization is to explain to the boys about civil rights and its history. In addition, the 11-19 year-olds have been planning their own ways of freedom during the summer, so the members of the organization are back across the country to explain important events and their country's history.

The liberation movement that began with the Rosa Bus incident culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, which led to numerous violent incidents and assassinations and eventually became law through nonviolent struggle. But Roja's beliefs are against non-violence. In August 1994, a young man broke into her house and assaulted her. Rosa opposed herself to the untouchables in South Africa. It has brought together many leaders from around the world. In the last year of her life, she made 30 trips across The United States and claimed to be the mother of civil rights. Her initiative in 1955 changed the lives of thousands of black people in a country where racism was rampant. However, she died at her home in Detroit on October 25, 2005, at the age of 92. She has received numerous honorary degrees, numerous university honorary degrees, the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in 1980, and the Elena Roosevelt Woman of Courage Prize. Bill Clinton won the Presidential Medal in 1996 and the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. The prize went to Mother Teresa in 1997 and Nelson Mandela in 1998.