on by Rosa Parks on the bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which eventually led to the Civil Acts Right of 1964. During the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa and her family received many threats and were constantly harassed, and she was also fired from her job as a seamstress. (Women’s History Encyclopedia 1)In 1957 Rosa and her husband moved to Detroit, Michigan where she began sewing again and also worked as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In the year 1965, Congressman John Conyers, Jr., also a civil rights leader, hired Rosa to manage his Detroit office. Both Rosa and her husband remained active in the NAACP and also the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1980, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. (Women’s History Encyclopedia 2) This gave her a great feeling and it made her realize once again how much influence she had by her actions in 1955. (Parks 39)After the death of her husband in 1987, Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. This organization offers guidance to young blacks and sponsors an annual summer program, Pathways to Freedom. (Guest History Month 2)Rosa McCauley Parks devoted her life to the aid of other people. She made a very large impact on history with her actions on the bus, which eventually helped blacks throughout the entire United States. Some of the awards not mentioned that Rosa achieved were the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal (1970), the Martin Luther King Jr. Award (1980), the Lifetime Achievement Award (1997), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award. (Guest History Month 2) Rosa Parks celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday February 4, 2000. Her courage, determination and her will to never give up in her efforts to make Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle, gave this country a little ...
