What year did Rosa Parks found the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development?
1987. In 1957, Rosa and Raymond moved to Detroit, Michigan. In 1977, Raymond Parks died. Ten years later, Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to give young people hope and to help them complete their education. Top of Page 6. True or False: Rosa Parks has been called the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” True. The Civil Rights Movement helped make it illegal for people to discriminate against other people based on their race, color, religion, or nationality. Rosa Parks received many honors for her work in Civil Rights, including the Spingarn Medal, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also, Cleveland Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, (the street where Rosa boarded the bus on December 1, 1955) was renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard. Did you know Rosa was a guest at the 1999 State of the Union Address and sat next to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton? Preside
