15 facts about Rosa parks.

Here are some of the interesting facts you never knew about Rosa Parks :

Fact 1-Rosa Parks was born on Feb 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Fact 2-She was of African, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry.

 Fact 3-McCauley attended rural schools until the age of eleven.

Fact 4- Rosa Parks became a national icon of civil rights and African-American pride.

 Fact 5-Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber, in 1932, and they remained married until his death in 1977

 Fact 6-When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver called police, and Rosa Parks was arrested and fined.

 Fact 7-She married Raymond Parker, a barber in 1932.

Fact 8-Parks did not refuse to leave her seat because her feet were tired.

 Fact 9-In the 1940s, Parks and her husband were members of the Voters’ League

 Fact 10-Bus seats were left empty to honor Parks on the 50th anniversary of her arrest.

 Fact 11-She had no children.

Fact 12-She was 42 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.

 Fact 13-She worked as a hostess in an inn at Hampton Institute.

 Fact 14- In 1983, she was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

 Fact 15-In 1999, she was awarded the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Freedom Award.