Examples of Rosa Parks in the following topics:
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Montgomery and Protests
- At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as adviser.
- Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession and also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
- The final choice was Rosa Parks, the elected secretary of the Montgomery NAACP and Nixon had been her boss.
- Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H.
- Describe the roles of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other protesters in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Ida B. Wells
- Wells refused to give up her seat, 71 years before the activist Rosa Parks showed similar resistance on a bus.
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Women of the Civil Rights Movement
- She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders and mentored many emerging activists of the time, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses.
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The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement
- The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v.
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The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement
- Board of Education in 1954; Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955-1956; and the desegregation of Little Rock in 1957) expanded into other forms of protest in the 1960s.
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Washington and DuBois
- Wells refused to give up her seat, 71 years before the activist Rosa Parks showed similar resistance on a bus.
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Outdoor Recreation
- Bicycle riding, camping, baseball, and public parks grew in prominence during the late nineteenth century.
- Olmsted was famous for codesigning many well-known urban parks with his senior partner, Calvert Vaux, including Prospect Park and Central Park in New York City, as well as Elm Park (Worcester, Massachusetts), which is considered by many to be the first municipal park in America.
- Olmsted not only created numerous city parks around the country, but he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces.
- New York City's need for a great public park was voiced by the poet and editor of the Evening Post (now the New York Post), William Cullen Bryant, and by the first American landscape architect, Andrew Jackson Downing, who began to publicize the city's need for a public park in 1844.
- The state appointed a Central Park Commission to oversee the development of the park, and in 1857, the commission held a landscape design contest.
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Cheap Amusements
- Amusement parks, set up outside major cities and in rural areas, emerged to meet this new economic opportunity.
- By the early 1900s, hundreds of amusement parks were operating in the United States and Canada.
- Parks such as Atlanta's Ponce de Leon and Idora Park near Youngstown, Ohio, took passengers to traditionally popular picnic grounds, which by the late 1890s often included rides such as the carousel, "Giant Swing," and "Shoot-the-Chutes."
- These amusement parks, with names such as "Coney Island," "White City," "Luna Park," and "Dreamland," often were based on nationally known parks or world's fairs.
- The American Gilded Age was, in fact, the Golden Age of amusement parks that reigned until the late 1920s.
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Popular Culture
- New York's Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
- So, Central Park was created as a place for people to get away and relax.
- In the park, people could ice skate during the winter and bicycle during the summer.
- It was meant to be a meeting place for all citizens; however, the richest lived near the park, and the poor far from it.
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Hooverville
- Notable Hoovervilles were in Central Park and Riverside Park in New York City, where scores of homeless families camped out.