... as teachers. In 1929 Rosa leaves school to take care of her ill grandmother. In 1932 Rosa meets the love of her life Raymond Parks a barber and marries him in December at the age of 29. 1933 Rosa finally receives her high school degree. Rosa and ... Raymond save the "Scottsboro Boys"-nine black men accused of raping two white teens in1931. They were convicted and an all white jury sentenced ... December 20,1956 a total of 382 days. The Supreme Court declared November 13, 1956 segregation on the Montgomery buses unconstitutional. Boycotters returned to the buses. Rosa and Raymond moved ...

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... a coloured woman, her pay was considerably lower than white women. Because of this, Rosa had to work several jobs at a time. Life became somewhat easier when she married her husband, Raymond Parks in 1932, also an active member of the NAACP. They both participated in many protests and events organized and run by the NAACP. Rosa even became the secretary for ... . She basically started the civil rights movement for the rights and freedom for coloured people as well as challenging segregation laws to change. She was even founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an...

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... for girls, and graduated from the African American Booker T. Washington High School in 1928.She attended Alabama State College for a brief time after graduating high school. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks. Both she and her husband were participants in many civil rights causes active at that time. Parks worked with the NAACP Youth Council and was elected as secretary of ... was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize in 1980, and in 1984, she was given the Eleanor Roosevelt Women of Courage Award. She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development...

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... as a result of the Montgomery boycott. She and her family moved to Detroit in 1957. Where she worked for many years for Congressman John Conyers. She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to offer guidance to young African Americans in preparation for leader ship and careers. 1979, she won a Medal for her work in civil rights. She ... ...

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... sent to Montgomery to finish her studies. She did that for five years and then had to help her grandfather and soon after that her grandmother. In 1932, Parks married Raymond Parks. The only way she could graduate from high school was with his support. They both worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She had ... ...

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... in exchange to pay for her tuition. After which Rosa entered Booker T. Washington High School but dropped out after her mother became very ill. In December 1932, Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks in Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa and her husband shared common interest in the problems of inequality and segregation in the South. In 1943, parks became one of the first ... ...

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... school at 16 years old to care for her grandma. She died around the time she dropped out and soon cared for her ill mother. On December 1932 she married Raymond Parks. A 29 year-old barber who was part of the NAACP. One year later she received her high school diploma. She got really dedicated to racial justice and improving the ... ...

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