Rosa Parks VIDEO	Coming Soon             The NEW Rosa L. Parks       Commemorative Pictorial Album                           ROSA LOUISE PARKS                            (1913 - 2005)    For more information on Mays Printing services: (313)861-1900                                                 Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. She was educated at Alabama State College. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks, who was an early activist. In 1943, Parks became one of the first women to join the NAACP where she was an active member and served in several capacities, including secretary and youth leader of the local Montgomery branch.   On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white male passenger. Her quiet courageous act reverberated throughout the United States, changed the course of history and catapulted her into the role of “Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.” In 1957, Mr. and Mrs. Parks moved to Detroit, where she became a Deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1964. Mrs. Parks worked for Congressman John Conyers from 1965 until 1988, when she retired to pursue her desire to offer mentoring and guidance to young people. Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development in 1987 with Elaine Eason Steele. The Institute, a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization is devoted to motivating youth, ages 11 through 17 to achieve their highest potential. She has received numerous awards including the Spingarn Medal, NAACP, 1979, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1996, and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest American civilian award, 1999. Mrs. Rosa Parks is the first woman and civilian to lie in honor in the Capitol Building Rotunda.                           ( Download Funeral Program)
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