Haiku Jumble: Rosa Parks

Bold within her stance,

sat where she pleased on a bus,

paid for it with time.

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10 Fun Facts on Rosa Parks:

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
She was an American activist working for voter's rights, desegregation, fair housing, and more. Rosa was known as the "Mother of The Movement".
She was diligent in getting her high school diploma when only 7% of African Americans finished school to receive one. Her high school was a laboratory at the Alabama State Teachers' College for Negroes.
In December 1943, Rosa joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, working as the secretary until 1957. As a secretary, she was a sexual assault investigator, researching and fighting for equal justice in the case of Recy Taylor who was an African American woman gang-raped in Abbeville, Alabama.
In the 1940s, she was a member of the League of Women Voters along with her husband.
At the age of 42, she was famous for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955, to a white man when buses had separate sections for blacks and whites. The bus driver, James F. Blake, insisted that she take a seat at the further back of the bus than where she was sitting. Her resisting made him threaten to call the cops for her removal, but she left. Later on, she was arrested.
Her altercation inspired Martin Luther King, who led boycotting on buses for a full year with other members of the NAACP and other Black Folk in the city who were notified through the advertisements of the network of churches. These were efforts to end racial segregation on public transportation.
She was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the NAACP, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
After economic sanctions from the government, death threats from white people, and disagreements with the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, she moved to Hampton, Virginia.
In the mid-1960s, she traveled to participate in and support the Selma to Montgomery March, the Freedom Now Party, and the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (aka The Black Panthers).