“The only tired I was, was tired of giving up.” These words were spoken by the mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks, who was arrested for defying segregation laws, which required blacks and whites to attend different schools, drink from separate fountains, and sit in separate sections of the bus. Rosa Parks was honored as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement because she was part of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), stood up for what was right, and played an important role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1943 Rosa Parks along with her husband, Raymond Parks, joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1909 with the aim of "ensuring equal political, educational, social and economic rights for all". people and eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination” (NAACP-Our Mission). Parks joined the NAACP to help improve the lives of African Americans in the South. Something most blacks had to do back then since they didn't have the same rights as whites. They used tactics such as checking library books at the whites-only library to test Jim Crow laws. They also tried to resolve issues in court to achieve racial equality. Parks was later elected secretary of the NAACP. He was a member of the NAACP for twelve years. As a secretary, part of Parks' job involved traveling across Alabama interviewing victims of discrimination and eyewitnesses of lynchings. Since Rosa Parks was part of the NAACP, people thought she had been kicked out of the NAACP. the bus was another of their tactics, especially since it wasn't the first time she had been sent off the bus. An event that happened that people thought was planned... middle of paper... phy,Detroit ; Gale 2003. Student resources in context. Web April 4, 2014 “Montgomery Bus Boycott.” UXL Encyclopedia of United States History.Sonia Benson,Daniel E. Brannen,Jr. and Rebecca Valentino. Vol.5. Detroit: UXL, 2009 1023-1026 student resources in Context, Web.7 April 2014Modigliani,Laura. 'The mother of a movement: Rosa Parks, a heroine in the fight for equal rights, was born 100 years ago.' School News/Reader Weekly Edition 5164/February 2013:4+. Resources for students in context.Web April 7, 2014Make it Lights-"Parks remembers bus boycott/Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary," National Public Radio 1992, linked to "Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies' NPR, October 2005, Retrieve 4 July 2008.Williams,Juan (2002,Eyes on the Prize:America's Civil Rights Years,1954-1965,Penguin Books,p.66 ISBN 0-14-009653-1.http;//www.history. com/news10 -things-you-might-not-know-about-rosa-parks