Civil Rights: Rosa Parks

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” This was said by Rosa Parks. She was an enormous inspiration to the African American Race. She was one among many who lived in a rough time for African Americans. She lived in a time when equality wasn’t really equal. When African Americans were scared/ weren’t allowed to state their opinions on different matters. However, Rosa Parks was an individual who stood up for herself. Rosa Parks helped the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans gain equality mainly through her courage and refusal to move.

Rosa Parks was influenced by a brave woman named claudette colvin on March 2nd 1955. She refused to give up her seat to a white person on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. Rosa’s career started when she was noticed for not giving up her seat on the bus just like claudette. When rosa started in the field she was known for being a brave woman and her activism. Rosa has learned from her experience that she has to stick up for herself and not let people walk over her. She has learned that multiple times and fought and fought and fought. Rosa has overcome segregation and ruud people. She has been one of the most strongly supported activists in our nation's history. She is amazing.

Rosa Parks is one of the famous activists of civil disobedience; she has experienced the foulness of segregation all her life. She was born Rosa McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She received a poor education from a poor segregated school house, and dropped out of Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes to care for her sick grandma. She married Raymond Parks, a barber and an activist of NAACP at age 19 (Rosa).

Rosa Parks faced a lot of challenges in her life like being african american.Challenges she had to face was like being called discrimination words.Rosa was pushed around because she was african american.If a white person wanted something she owned she pretty much had to give it to them.White people could go out and kill a black person if they wanted to and not get even a little bit if trouble for it.

‘’Each person must live their life as a model for others.’’ (Rosa Parks) Rosa Parks was tired of the way African Americans were poorly treated. She took a stand by not obeying a demand to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. Because of her bold action she became a model to millions. Parks was an African American woman who became known for her bravery, which helped to change the nation. ‘’Parks spent most of her life fighting for desegregation, voting rights, and was active in the civil Right Movement that has changed social code in the U.S.’’(Rosa Parksfact.com). Rosa Parks is a pioneer for her brave act; her belief in equality, justice, and advancement for African American has impacted the world.

Rosa Park was and African-American civil rights activist she refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger on December 1,1995 .The bus driver noticed that the whites only section was full and more whites were coming on the bus the bus driver ordered that three other blacks in the next row to move to the back the two others moved to the back of the bus but Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and she got arrested after this happened Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses.A Officer on the scene said they asked rosa if she was tired they said her response was “I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”so this show that rosa was tired of getting

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

Rosa was arrested for not letting a white man sit in her seat. After Rosa was arrested one of her good friends named Edgar Dixon started to send out newspaper articles about Rosa’s arrest. The articles stated that any African American people could join a boycott where none of them would ride the city buses until they would stop segregation. This boycott lasted 381 days before the Supreme Court upheld the segregation on buses and other items like the drinking fountains. The Supreme Court came to a conclusion that Rosa was indeed innocent and would be fined 14 dollars. Rosa’s contribution to the bus boycott was a major part in the ending of segregation. Even though Rosa wasn’t the only one to get arrested for not letting a white man or women sit in their seat. Rosa was able to actually put an end to some of the segregation

Rosa Parks has influenced many people throughout the United States by standing up for what she believes in. “Many historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1,1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger” (Rosa Parks Biography). Rosa Parks, an AfricanAmerican woman, became a civil rights activist, inspired the modern civil rights movement, served on the staff of the U.S. Representatives, and transpired as a civil rights icon. Rosa Parks has changes the world in the eyes of many people.

Rosa Louise Parks also known as, “the mother of the modern day civil rights movement,” in America was an extraordinary, strong, and powerful African-American woman. She made a huge impact society.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Rosa Parks showed how she is a fearless woman by standing up to the authorities, a woman who stays committed and isn’t afraid to state her mind. She expresses that she’d do anything to make things constitutional and fair, and to also keep them that way through her actions. Rosa was a seamstress. This is the reason why she had to ride the bus everyday. Mrs. Parks says she sat in the section made for African Americans. James Blake, Rosa’s bus driver, commanded Parks to give up her seat to a white man. She refused to get up for the man. Parks said “ I wasn’t tired, just tired of giving in.“ By law she didn’t have to, so Rosa didn’t. Parks was arrested for violating the laws of segregation and the “Jim Crow laws“. She was also

Rosa Parks was the center of one of the greatest civil rights movements in the mid-20th-century. She became an icon due to her calm refusal to give up her seat to a white man, which triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott beginning in 1955 (Baggett, 2016). Rosa Parks acted with courage and stood up for what she believed in; paving the way for many American citizens to follow in her footsteps - or lack of footsteps. She stayed true to herself and inspired others to take similar courageous actions throughout the civil rights movement in America.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on the fourth of February of 1913. (History Net) She is known to be the “Mother Of The Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” by not giving up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. (Scholastic) Therefore, Parks had created an opportunity for protesters all over the nation to protest for their rights. With her courageous action, it had changed America and changed others’ perspective.

Rosa Parks, the most famous African American woman ever, made a significant impact on America by merely standing up for what she believed. Segregation was widespread in the 1900’s; blacks were treated awfully bad and had restricted rights. Blacks and whites were treated completely different. Schools were divided up into black and white races. The drinking fountain and bathrooms were divided up and usually everything was new and nicer for whites. Soon enough one individual stood up for her race, and risked everything. The events of December 1, 1955 on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama changed Rosa Parks’ life forever, and helped to launch a long lasting civil rights movement across America.

The morning of December 1st, 1955, She was just another working African American woman at the Fair department in Montgomery, by that night she was a criminal, and the day after, she was a hero. After one long tiring day, Rosa was on the bus home when decided to stand up and make a difference. She wouldn’t give up her seat on a bus for a white man. This may not seem like a big deal today, because we all have the right to sit anywhere we want on buses. Back during the time Rosa was living, colored people had to sit in the back, and would be arrested for sitting where white people sat. Which was usually in the front and middle seats. Shortly Rosa refused to give up her seat, she was arrested for “breaking the law”, and was “charged with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law”( "Who Is Rosa Parks?") She was very courageous every step of the way, although it was not planned. Rosa also got a lot of support from many people for being courageous. She also reminds me of Odysseus, how he never gave up, regarding the obstacles he’s had and despite the fact that many gods