Happy Birthday!

During this month of Black History we celebrate the birth of Rosa Parks. 

Rosa (McCauley) Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913.  She lived a long life passing away at age 92 on October 24, 2005.

Having grown up in the South, Rosa experienced racism in many different ways.  

When she married at 19, her husband was a civil rights activist.  She also became a member of the NAACP which had been operating since 1909.

She is often called the “mother of the civil rights movement”  after her first act of refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in 1955.

She was fined but refused to pay.  The Montgomery chapter president, ED Nixon offered to help her fight the conviction.  The goal was to generate outrage nationwide.

The Montgomery bus boycott was the centerpiece led by Dr. Martin Luther King.  The boycott lasted 381 and started protests all over the country.

In November of 1956, the US Supreme Court pronounced that the Montgomery segregated buses were unconstitutional and that buses must be integrated.

Rosa and her stance were the beginning of this decision and helped spark a national civil rights movement.

Private Home Health Care celebrates the birthday of this strong black woman who said no on a bus in Alabama to bring about change.