Laverne A Parks (1916 - 1990)

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Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

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Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

Rosa Louise (Mc Cauley) Parks

Jesse James Hampton and Margaret Parks

Anne Elise Parks on CBS 11 (2019)

Anne Elise Parks on CBS 11 (2019)

Anne Elise Parks

Anne Elise Parks

Anne Elise Parks on KTVI FOX 2

Gordon Parks

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In 1916, in the year that Laverne A Parks was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In 1934, when she was 18 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

In 1940, by the time she was 24 years old, on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.

In 1958, when she was 42 years old, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1990, in the year of Laverne A Parks's passing, after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.