What was Rosa Parks famous quote?

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.”

What is Rosa Parks Favorite food?

“She believed in the golden rule and treating everyone with respect.” She also enjoyed eating, says her niece. One of her favorite dishes was chicken and dumplings, which she made from scratch. “Auntie Rosa wouldn’t use a bowl,” she says of Parks, who didn’t have children of her own.

What are 10 facts about Rosa Parks?

10 Things You May Not Know About Rosa Parks

• Parks was not the first African American woman to be arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a Montgomery bus.
• Parks was a civil rights activist before her arrest.
• Parks had a prior encounter with James Blake, the bus driver who demanded she vacate her seat.
• Her act of civil disobedience was not pre-meditated.

What was Rosa Parks greatest achievement?

Greatest Achievement: Sparking the modern civil rights movement in the United States by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Rosa Parks’s arrest for breaking Montgomery segregation laws started a boycott of the city bus line that lasted 381 days.

What did Rosa Parks say when asked to move?

2. If Rosa Parks had not moved, a white passenger would not have had a place to sit. Blake got out of his seat and instructed the four to move, saying, “Y’all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.” Three of the black passengers reluctantly proceeded to go and stand in the back of the bus.

How many kids did Rosa Parks have?

Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. She and her husband never had children and she outlived her only sibling.

What was Rosa Parks husband name?

Raymond Parksm. 1932–1977