The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement - Rosa Parks

The following year Rosa and her husband Raymond relocated north to Detroit where she founded the "Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development" to provide young people with career training. She also remained active in NAACP.

Now in her 80s, Rosa continues to spread her message across the generations and now has a program at the Institute called "Pathways to Freedom" where students 11-18 are taken to key locations within the US and partake in workshops teaching about such things as the Underground Railway and the Civil Rights Movement.

The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" has received much worldwide acclaim for her work, but she acknowledges that she alone was not responsible for changing things, and that she was just one of many. Recognition for her work towards a more racially equal society has come in the shape of such awards as the "Martin Luther King Jr Non-violent Peace Prize", and most recently in 1999, the highest accolade to be given to a civilian in the USA, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.

Read more about Rosa Parks in "Quiet Strength", Zondervan Publishing House, 1994

Katie-Anne, 2001

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