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The bus incident was not Parks' first foray into civil rights activism. Prior to this, she had served as a secretary for the [[NAACP]], and she recounted in an interview that she had experienced past confrontations with bus drivers.<ref>http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html</ref>
The bus incident was not Parks' first foray into civil rights activism. Prior to this, she had served as a secretary for the [[NAACP]], and she recounted in an interview that she had experienced past confrontations with bus drivers.<ref>http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html</ref>
[[File:Ali Rosa Parks & Trump.jpg|right|thumb|[[Anita Bryant]], [[Muhammad Ali]], Rosa Parks and [[Donald Trump]] receive the 1986 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.]]
[[File:Ali Rosa Parks & Trump.jpg|right|thumb|[[Anita Bryant]], [[Muhammad Ali]], Rosa Parks and [[Donald Trump]] receive the 1986 Ellis Island Medal of Honor.]]
==Early life==
Rosa Parks childhood in Montgomery helped her to develop strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of eleven. Before that, she was [[homeschooled]] by her mother. At age eleven she attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, where she took various vocational and academic courses. She began laboratory school for her secondary education, but never completed it because she was forced to drop out to care for her ailing grandmother.
Rosa’s childhood was greatly influenced by the [[Jim Crow]] laws of [[the South]], which [[segregate]]d white people from black people in almost every part of their daily lives. This included public restrooms, drinking fountains, education and transportation. For the children attending school, there was busing for the white children to their school, but the black children were required to walk to another school. [[Public transportation]] followed this line of segregation except that blacks were allowed on the bus as long as they sat in the back, apart from the whites.
The Jim Crow Laws that segregated blacks from whites were created by white members of the [[Democratic Party]] in the Southern states between 1876 and 1963. They created many barriers for [[black]] voters and had several regulations including banning interracial marriage and providing racially segregated school systems. This continued existence of this policy created and continued great political tension between the Northern and Southern states, the Democratic and Republican Parties, on the issues of black rights.
In 1998, [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]] awarded Parks the [[Congressional Gold Medal]], which is the highest honor that can be given to an American civilian.<ref>http://www.africawithin.com/bios/rosa_parks.htm</ref>
In 1998, [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]] awarded Parks the [[Congressional Gold Medal]], which is the highest honor that can be given to an American civilian.<ref>http://www.africawithin.com/bios/rosa_parks.htm</ref>