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What Is Rosa Parks Essay

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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.
Mrs. Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama. Rosa Parks parents are James McCauley …show more content…

Everyone was furious, as a result, a boycott came into play and lasted for 381 days.
“We are not going to give them our dimes to be insulted and humiliated, said Martin Luther King Jr, a leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association.” (San Antonio Register, Vol. 25, No. 45) Rosa Parks was well known, so when Martin Luther King Jr heard that Mrs. Parks went to jail he called for a meeting at his church, they were talking about how they wanted things to change but everyone was scared. Everyone gave up except for Dr. King, he thought they could do a boycott, so they will refuse to ride the busses until something will change.
“The boycott has cut Negro patronage of city buses about 85 per cent and Negro leaders said it will continue until bus of the boycott.” (San Antonio Register, Vol. 25, No. 44) White people barely rode on buses because if you're white then that means you are rich at that time, so the boycott caused the city a lot of money because most people who ride on the buses are African Americans. African Americans who worked for white people refused to show up for work unless they paid for their ride.
“Police cars and motorcycles followed the buses periodically after an operator reported that two rifle pellets struck the back of his coach.” (San Antonio Register, Vol. 25, No. 44) African Americans, so they caused more problems for busses. They wanted to get back at the white people for what they did to Rosa Parks. They were just sick and tired of being called

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