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Pre-show activities will be held at 2PM in the Stewart Center Hallway. Learn more about Rosa Parks and her story in the upcoming performance of Walk On: The Story of Rosa Parks. In 1992, she published her autobiography entitled Rosa Parks: My Story.Rosa and her husband were active members of the League of Women Voters.Recy Taylor.” It is known by the Chicago Defender as “the strongest campaign for equal justice to be seen in a decade.” She was elected as a secretary and organized “The Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs.

Parks became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as early as December 1943.

At this time, less than 7% of African-Americans had a high school diploma. Her ancestry included African, Scots-Irish, and Native American.

Rosa Parks’ mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter.

We have gathered five interesting facts about Rosa Parks to get you ready for the performance. Through music and drama, Walk On: The Story of Rosa Parks shows how individual determination makes a difference in freedom and equality for all. In 1931, she met Raymond Parks, a politically active barber, and they married in 1932. She chafed under the strictures of segregation. Her protest ignited America’s Civil Rights movement and forever changed our nation. 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley had a determined spirit that was nurtured by her mother and grandparents. But an even more important transformation awaited in Montgomery, Alabama as Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. You could feel tremors rumbling across America as rock ‘n’ roll excited kids and outraged parents.