![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many of us who work to end sexual and domestic violence, Parks had been impacted personally. The NAACP sent Parks to Abbeville to investigate. Taylor’s assault drew the attention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where Rosa Parks worked as a secretary. More than a decade before Parks took a stand for African Americans by refusing to give up her seat on that bus, she provided legal aid to Recy Taylor, who was raped by white men in Abbeville, Alabama. Her defiant act was a catalyst for the Montgomery bus boycott and Parks became an iconic woman in the civil rights movement.Īs we celebrate National African American History Month, I want to share another story about Rosa Parks that helped create the foundation of a movement that we are proud to work on at the Office on Violence Against Women. Rosa Parks is widely known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. ![]()
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