She served as a stewardess, helping with Communion and baptisms in her local AME congregation in Detroit. Rosa Parks was a lifelong, active member of the historic AME church, the first Black denomination founded in America by the former slave Richard Allen. She Was a Member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church “Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs.” The faith her grandparents taught her as a little girl gave her the strength that undergirded her activism as an adult. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields,” she wrote.

In her autobiography Quiet Strength, she noted, “Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. Parks’ Grandparents Molded Her Faithīorn Rosa Louise McCauley, her grandparents instilled Christian values in her from a young age.

All people were equal in the eyes of God, and I was going to live like a free person.” 2. “God’s peace flooded my soul, and my fear melted away. “I instantly felt God give me the strength to endure whatever would happen next,” she recounted. It was her faith in God that gave her the courage to stand up to segregation on that fateful day in December 1955. Parks’ biographer Jeanne Theoharis, described her as a “staunch and active Christian.” She was devoted to her faith, carrying her Bible with her. Parks Attributes Her Faith For Giving Her Courage to Refuse to Give Up Her Seat Today marks the 107th birthday of “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” In celebration of her and black history month, Ambo TV looks at four ways this civil rights heroine’s strong Christian faith shaped her legacy. “In the end, God used a simple bus ride to accomplish more than we could have ever dreamed,” she later stated. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus and changed the course of history. By Brooke Girley | 3:33 pm, February 4th, 2020

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