Rosa Parks Net Worth

Rosa Parks net worth is
$1.6 Million

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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in the U.S. states of California and Ohio.On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation. Others had taken similar steps, including Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and the members of the Browder v. Gayle lawsuit (Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith) who were arrested in Montgomery months before Parks. NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, although eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts while the Browder v. Gayle case succeeded.Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She acted as a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job as a seamstress in a local department store.Eventually, she moved to Detroit, where she briefly found similar work. From 1965 to 1988 she served as secretary and receptionist to John Conyers, an African-American U.S. Representative. After retirement, Parks wrote her autobiography and lived a largely private life in Detroit. In her final years, she suffered from dementia.Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Upon her death in 2005, she was the first woman and second non-U.S. government official to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

Full Name	Rosa Parks
Net Worth	$1.6 Million
Date Of Birth	February 4, 1913
Died	October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place Of Birth	Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
Height	1.6 m
Occupation	Civil rights activist
Profession	Activist
Work Position	Persons who have lain in state or honor
Education	Highlander Folk School, Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes
Nationality	American
Spouse	Raymond Parks
Parents	Leona McCauley, James McCauley
Siblings	Sylvester McCauley
Nicknames	Rosa Parks, Parks, Rosa Louise McCauley, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
IMDB
Awards	Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Spingarn Medal, Golden Plate Awards
Star Sign	Aquarius

#	Quote
1	Each person must live their life as a model for others.
2	I understand I am a symbol, but I have never gotten used to being a public person.

#	Fact
1	Inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia in 2004.
2	Suffered from dementia and other health problems, lived with a caretaker in the Riverfront Apartments in downtown Detroit, Michigan.
3	Pictured on a USA nondenominated ('forever') commemorative stamp, issued 4 February 2013, the 100th anniversary of her birth. Price on day of issue was 46¢.
4	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 413-415. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
5	Coincidentally, Yolanda King who portrayed Parks in King (1978), is the daughter of Martin Luther King who, like Parks, fought vehemently all his life for equal rights.
6	The African-American boycott of Montgomery buses that followed Parks' arrest lasted for more than a year, forcing company officials to rescind their separatist seating policies. Parks' fine for not surrendering her bus seat to a white man: $14.00.
7	After nationwide services and celebrations of Rosa Parks' life, she was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.
8	Has an elementary school named after her in Lancaster, Texas; Rosa Parks Millbrook Elementary School.
9	Is the first woman and the second African-American to lie in repose at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C.
10	Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, America's highest honor, in 1999.
11	Is a honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
12	Has an elementary school named after her in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Sandra Graham and Rosa Parks Alternative Public School.
13	Inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983 and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
14	Arrested on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to yield her seat on a city bus to a white male. This action led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott that desegregated Montgomery buses.

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
Touched by an Angel	1999	TV Series	Rosa Parks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Intimate Portrait	2001	TV Series documentary	Herself
Of Civil Wrongs & Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story	2000	Documentary	Herself
1993 Essence Awards	1993	TV Special	Herself - Honoree
A Place of Rage	1991	Documentary	Herself
21st NAACP Image Awards	1989	TV Special	Herself
19th Annual NAACP Image Awards	1987	TV Special	Herself - Presenter
To Tell the Truth	1980	TV Series	Herself - Contestant (1980)