Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background, in 1955, Ebony Magazine, USIA/National Archives and Records Administration
Birth Name: Rosa Louise McCauley
Date of Birth: February 4, 1913
Place of Birth: Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
Date of Death: October 24, 2005
Place of Death: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Ethnicity: African-American, as well as smaller amounts of English and Irish
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is known for rejecting bus driver James F. Blake’s’s request to relinquish her seat to a white passenger in 1955; she was thus arrested for civil disobedience, for violating Alabama’s segregation laws. Inspiring the Montgomery bus boycott, Rosa participated in the subsequent legal challenge. An Alabama court ruled the following year that bus segregation was unconstitutional. At the time, Rosa was a department store seamstress, and a secretary at the NAACP’s Montgomery chapter. Hailed for her actions, she bcame a worldwide symbol of resistance to racism, and joined in organizing with civil rights leaders Edgar Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr. She was later a secretary to a U.S. Congressman, was active in the Black Power movement, and supported political prisoners in the U.S. Rosa Parks has been honoured as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement” by the U.S. Congress. Upon her death in 2005, she was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
Rosa was the daughter of Leona (Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. All of Rosa’s grandparents were black. One of her maternal great-great-grandfathers was Irish, and a maternal great-grandfather on another line was likely white, as well. A picture of Rosa’s father can be seen here. Rosa is sometimes described as having had some degree of Cherokee Native American, Creek Native American, and/or Scots-Irish/Northern Irish ancestry. It is not clear if any or all of these lineages have been verified/documented.
She was partly raised on her grandparents’ farm, outside Pine Level, Montgmery County, AL. Rosa was married to barber and NAACP staffer Raymond Parks, until his death.
Rosa’s paternal grandfather was named Anderson McCauley. Anderson was born in Alabama or Georgia.
Rosa’s paternal grandmother was named Louisa Collins. Louisa was born in Alabama.
Rosa’s maternal grandfather was named Sylvester Edwards (the son of Rosa Jones). Sylvester was born in Alabama. Rosa’s great-grandmother Rosa was the daughter of Joseph Jones and Mary Potter. Rosa’s grandfather Sylvester is described in the book Rosa Parks: A Life in American History, 2021, page 6, as having been the son of a white plantation owner, likely named John Edwards, who raped Rosa’s great-grandmother.
Rosa’s maternal grandmother was Rose/Rosena/Rosie Percival (the daughter of James Percival and Mary Janes Nobles). Rosa’s grandmother Rose was born in Alabama. James’s father was Irish.
Sources: Genealogies of Rosa Parks – http://www.wargs.com
http://www.geni.com
https://www.wikitree.com
Rosa Parks/Rosa McCauley on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Rosa’s father on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Rosa’s mother on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
You say one drop rule but, do you think Rosa might’ve actually saw herself as a black woman. I’m thinking that she probably did
And? Rachel Dolezeal saw herself as a black woman despite being 100% white. What a self hating people see themselves as does not obliterate facts
comparing a woman who does have a certain bloodline to a woman (as far as we know) does not,but wants it is not the same thing. That’s a fact
you’re talking about a woman who grew up in a time , where white people were offensive to black people on a daily basis. So if she had some anger issues I think she was more than Justified. As for Outkast, she was angry at a particular group of black people, not black people in general. Just because you’re in the same ethnic background doesn’t mean you all get along. I guess that used her name without her permission and she didn’t like it
I wasn’t hurt by your comment, just stating a fact
Quote:( fortunately there had been a lot of white people who did nt care about the rules and had affairs and relationships with black…)
The rules against interracial relationships really only applied to black men and white women sexual relationships. White men actually signed petitions stating that the law of men had no right, to stop them from what they believed was their God given right to pursue or lay with whomever they wanted. It was looked down on in the public, but they didn’t what they wanted. However yes, I’m pretty sure, there were plenty of relationships that had to do with love
correction: did what they wanted
“Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter who was part African American, Scots-Irish and Native American.”
http://www.biography.com/news/remembering-rosa-parks-on-her-100th-birthday-21114273
he had an interesting look: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/find-a-grave-prod/photos/2016/266/170464196_1474675363.jpg
Actually back then his look was pretty common, you’ll see lots of picture of AA’s men with his look
Rosa’s husband looked kinda Semitic/MENA. Surely he had a Caucasoid phenotype.
http://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/38900/38926v.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/50/92/34/509234238b151118a268603ca9c7980f.jpg
Well black people can have a Caucasoid phenotype naturally, but I understand what you’re saying. yes he does look like a white man. You have to remember, there have been thousands and thousands of mulattoes born in the past 400 yrs some went into the white population, while the rest went into the black.Rosa’s husband could be more white than black or it’s just traits. As I mention before, most people who didn’t know my father, thought he was white. He looked like his father, who after seeing a picture of him, I thought he was white. Yet my Great grand dad was 3/4 indian I/4 black(looked straight Indian).
There was so many white looking mulattoes and Creoles running around, that white women in New Orleans often pretended to be creole women in bordellos to make more money
@fuzzybear
From NYT:
“Early on Rosa McCauley learned she was not a full Negro but of mixed blood, a mulatto. In fact, several of her family members were often mistaken for white; her younger brother, Sylvester, was so light-skinned that his slanted eyes inspired people to call him “C–nk,” thinking he was Asian. Parks also recalled, “My grandfather was very light-complected, with straight hair, and sometimes people took him for white.” What’s more, “He took every bit of advantage of being white-looking. He was always doing or saying something that would embarrass or agitate white people “
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brinkley-parks.html
Her brother looks like a Japanese man
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/sylvester-mccauley-1915-1977-granger.jpg
Most Africans Americans are different colors from light to dark. My grandmother looked like Rosa Parks and she was black. Even when the black slaves came to America, they were not all dark skinned. And Remrmber northern Africans can get olive skinned to white, so just because geneticists divide a line between North.and subsaharan Africa , it does not mean the populations did not cross.
Race is a social thing not reality based. So Africans can have many many different looks.
She black !!! A role Model !!!
No she was phenotypically and genetically mixed. When I first saw her I was like wait, THATS Rosa Parks. She doesn’t look black at all. I thought she was white.
She did look mixed, but of course back then all the mixed blacks identified as black regardless if they were genetically mixed. Which is stupid af. I don’t consider mixed people to be black. People with TWO black parents are black, forget that stupid ass ONE DROP RULE bullshit.
@WTF mixed people can choose to be black or white. You sound like an angry mullato. If youre mixed you are white and black. And yes you can call yourself black after the black parent.
@WTF I agree! It’s so ridiculous, people are claiming a race becous they consider they look more like the other, if you are mixed , you are mixed.
Simple example with colors white + black = grey… Probably its looks more black or more white but still be grey…. You can call this color black or wihite.. And still be gray….. Becouse is grey.
2+5=7 not 2 not 5 Just 7.
And 2 is not better than 5 or 7 there are just numbers.
Chocolate milk= chocolate + milk + sugar.
Black person+ white= mixed (biracial)…. If this person have more races is multiracial.
When you mix you get another thing. It doesn’t care If it’s a human or other topic. Mixed is mixed.
And is they decide to choose one is wrong cuz they have both, and any ways if they decides one one people is going to attack the person, a Thats so sad.
People dosen’t accept mixed people becouse they just believe in 3 races… Black withe and yellow…. but the reality is that it dosen’t care if you are a beautiful mixed person, pure and beautiful black person or pure and beautiful white person. And race is just talk about genes and where do you came from, and history is with race too… But the race division came from humans, is how humans perceive those genes… mixed people demostrated that race is not a reason for being disrespectful or Racist, becouse in the end we all the same … Humas…. genes are important becouse they talk about you…. important >>> in the end we are all the same we just came from different places.
Btw, like I said I respect all opinions , some of them are funny but every body have oppinios about this tipic becouse, know ITS THE TOPIC… But I really don’t like when mixed people deny one of there roots it dosen’t care if it’s black, withe, native, yellow…. For me is sad.