{"id":3137,"date":"2024-09-12T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?post_type=mwhof&p=3137"},"modified":"2024-09-12T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:25:07","slug":"rosa-l-parks","status":"publish","type":"mwhof","link":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa L. Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(1913 \u2013 2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do. On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day\u2019s work as a seamstress. When the bus driver called out, \u201cNiggers, move back,\u201d Rosa Parks refused. Her eloquent \u201cNo\u201d sparked a 301-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system by Black citizens and her moment of personal courage helped inspire twenty years of civil rights reform, not only in Alabama but across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. She met Raymond Parks in 1931 and they were married the following year. Both Mrs. Parks and her husband were active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1957, Rosa, her husband, and her mother moved to Detroit to join her brother Sylvester who was already living there. In 1965, after supporting the candidacy of John Conyers for Congress, Rosa Parks joined Conyers\u2019 staff as an assistant in the congressman\u2019s Detroit office. She worked for Congressman Conyers for more than 15 years and continued her active involvement in the office even after retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Parks\u2019 life story was chronicled in the magazine supplement to the Detroit Free Press<\/em>, on November 30, 1980. She has received numerous awards and tributes, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-Violent Peace Prize and the Distinguished Service Award of Delta Sigma Theta, a national sorority of Black professional women. She has also had a major street named in her honor in Detroit and a scholarship fund which is intended to help Michigan students who display potential for the kind of courage and leadership Mrs. Parks evidenced in Montgomery in 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3138,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3137","mwhof","type-mwhof","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRosa L. Parks - Michigan Women Forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rosa L. Parks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Michigan Women Forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-12T15:25:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/\",\"name\":\"Rosa L. Parks - Michigan Women Forward\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-12T15:25:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-12T15:25:07+00:00\",\"description\":\"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"Rosa L. Parks photo\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rosa L. Parks\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/\",\"name\":\"Michigan Women Forward\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Michigan Women Forward\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MWF-Logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MWF-Logo.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Michigan Women Forward\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/601931\/\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/miwomenforward\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZ3lgN072qzJB5Hh_U8y3yg\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rosa L. Parks - Michigan Women Forward","description":"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rosa L. Parks","og_description":"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.","og_url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/","og_site_name":"Michigan Women Forward","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward","article_modified_time":"2024-09-12T15:25:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/","url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/","name":"Rosa L. Parks - Michigan Women Forward","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-12T15:25:06+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-12T15:25:07+00:00","description":"Rosa Parks made history not just because of what she did, but because of what she refused to do.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/rosa-l-parks.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"caption":"Rosa L. Parks photo"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/celebrating-women\/michigan-womens-hall-of-fame\/rosa-l-parks\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rosa L. Parks"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/","name":"Michigan Women Forward","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#organization","name":"Michigan Women Forward","url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MWF-Logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/MWF-Logo.jpg","width":800,"height":800,"caption":"Michigan Women Forward"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MichiganWomenForward","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/601931\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/miwomenforward\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCZ3lgN072qzJB5Hh_U8y3yg"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mwhof\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mwhof"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mwhof"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mwhof\/3137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mwhof\/3137\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miwf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}