Parks served as chapter secretary and, for a time, as advisor to the NAACP Youth Council. The couple was active in the Montgomery Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) External. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks and with his encouragement earned a high school diploma. Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Reflections by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Quiet Strength: the faith, the hope, and the heart of a woman who changed a nation. Officer: “I don’t know but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Rosa Parks, Negro Seamstress, whose Refusal to Move to the Back of a Bus Touched off the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. I did not get on the bus to get arrested I got on the bus to go home. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. Blacks also were required to sit at the back of the bus. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full.
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