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.

Martin Luther King Jr. is an idol for most people; Rosa Parks was one of them. She admired his bold integrity to stand up for what is right in equality. Dr. King was a light to the world, because people wanted things to change, but they were afraid. They did not want to be arrested or attacked. They could boycott. They could refuse to ride the buses. That would cost the city a lot of money. The city and bus officials would not like that. This was a way Dr. King was standing up for Rosa. I added Dr. King to Rosa’s friends, because I felt he made a great impact on her life. If it weren’t for Martin Luther King’s heroic act in taking charge of the situation, Rosa Parks may have been in jail longer than intended, with a possible worse penalty.

One of the most influential and inspirational women of all time was Rosa Parks. By one action she helped change the lives of a majority of African Americans and more importantly society as a whole. Rosa Parks sparked the attention of America when she refused to settle for the black (lower class)standards. Not only did she help change the lives for many African Americans but she helped equality for all men and women in the United States. By one brave women our world will be forever thankful.

Rosa Louis McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4 , 1913. When Rosa was just a two years old, her father moved out, leaving her Mother and little brother, Sylvester to take of themselves. The small, split family then moved in with Rosa Grandparents, who

Background Information: - Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her family later moved to Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa’s mother was a teacher, so that influence Rosa to want to become a teacher too, when she grew up. Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11. She left highschool early in order to care for her sick grandmother. She married Raymond Parks, a well educated young man, when she was 19. Rosa Parks later worked as a seamstress and joined the NAACP.

After 381days of the community of blacks started boycotting the bus system (which is 60% of the town), Dr. King participating in the movement, KKK riots, and bombing homes, the supreme court agreed that the separation was unlawful and they lifted segregation nationally in 1964. Parks was greatly awarded for her courageous act (Moulton). She received the Congressional Gold medal, the Spingarn award, the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also, she was listed in “The 20 Most Influential People of the 20th Century” in TIME magazine. Parks also published a book telling about her stories of segregation and her act of civil disobedience

Rosa parks was a lady born from Louise McCauley. She is famous for her bravery on not refusing her seat after a long day at work. As the driver asked her to get up and she denied because she said she didn?t had to give a white passenger her seat for them to be Comfortable. After that she was arrested but recognize by every black person for her bravery. After that Martin Luther king made a move making the

Parks felt that the only way that she could get her message out that blacks were being treated unfairly in America was to break the law. Back in those days the media did not cover anything

“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.

Back then, colored people had to give up their seats when there wasn’t enough room for all the white passengers. Rosa Parks is now a well-known civil rights activist who’s act of courage ended bus segregation. Afterwards, she was bailed out of jail by Edgar Nixon, whom of which helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott alongside Rosa and Martin Luther King Jr. Who was this woman who openly defied segregation law, you ask. Well, Rosa Parks was a Civil Rights activist and a supporter of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Here, an article states that, “She had become a symbol of the civil rights movement...

Parks was just the beginning of the race against racism. She and tons of other people tried to fight against racism and make it come to an end and created the freedom of a life time. Parks not giving up her seat on the transportation bus and refusing to listen to the white bus driver gave us the freedom that we all have today in our society. If Rosa Parks was never born or did what she did? Then who knows how society today would be treating one another.

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 Parks once said, “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was a model for everyone. She is an important figure in American History, she showed everyone that she cares that the world is like this and that she would not be afraid to stand up for her rights. One day when Rosa Parks came back home from work on the Cleveland Avenue bus, she sat on the bus but she sat in the whites section, so Fred Blake, the bus driver, asked her and three other people to get up and go somewhere else, everyone got up except for Mrs.Parks so she was arrested and fined ten dollars plus four dollars in court.

Rosa Parks was born on February 04, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. (Rosa Parks Civil Rights Pioneer Page 27) She was raised in Pine Level, for pretty much all of her life with her friends and family. (Rosa Parks Civil Rights Pioneer Page 27) When Rosa was little her parents separated and they moved to her grandfather’s farm, where she was also raised. (Biography.com) Rosa’s mother taught her how to read when she was like five years old and she attended a one- roomed school in Pine Level, Alabama. (Biography.com) In conclusion, at age 19, Rosa Parks met and married Raymond Parks, which helped her get through her high school years, and get a high school degree. (Biography.com)

This event inspired a lot of non violent protests in other places and it sped up the civil rights movement. Rosa took a vast journey to jail but her actions took a journey all around the world inspiring more of the black community to protest. Her actions were not intended she was just tired of being pushed around by the white community because of her skin color. Her actions after she went to jail resulted in a lot of non violent protest. So many that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the black community. Her actions was a way to stop segregation. The amount of courage that it took Rosa Parks to not give up her seat and go to jail was way more than I can think of. It took a lot of strength for the people involved in the nonviolent protest to not fight back when the white community was trying to break the protests. The KKK turned violent at one point and that put the black community in a great bit of