Parks’s work was not limited to the South. She served as the local NAACP secretary for twelve years and co-founded the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that launched the Montgomery bus boycott, in 1955. Parks became a member of the Montgomery Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943. The content for this article was researched and written by Jade Ryerson, an intern with the Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education.Īlthough Rosa Parks is perhaps best known for initiating the Montgomery bus boycott, her experience with civil rights activism is much more extensive. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H.
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