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    Rosa Parks was an important person in the Civil Rights Movement. She is famous for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus operated by the Montgomery Bus Line. This act pushed her to the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. Though this is what she was famous for she had been active in the Civil Rights Movement and NAACP for many years prior to her famous act of defiance. In December of 1955 Parks became a national symbol. She boarded a bus and sat in the back which was

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    Rosa Parks Mother

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    Rosa Parks was an inspirational and exceptional woman who is widely considered to be the ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4th, 1913. Her parents separated when she was just two years old, after which her and her mother moved to Pine Level to live with who grandparents, both grandparents were former slaves and strong supporters of racial equality. Parks has memories from her childhood of her grandfather standing

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    Rosa Parks Outline

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    Rosa Parks Rosa parks a very interesting person because she stood up for what she believed in and got arrested for that, her early life, and what she did after the boycott. Early life Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama(2 ). James and Leona McCauley, separated when Parks was 2, and her mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama so they could live with her parents(1).Rosa's brother, Sylvester, was born in 1915(3). African American students were forced to walk to the 1st

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    Rosa Parks Traits

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    Rosa Parks faced many challenges in her life, but she had many traits that allowed her to withstand the unfairness. She had many characteristics, one of them is courtesy. Also, she always stays strong no matter what even when she could just break down. Finally, she is very reliable, she always carries out her plans. These traits allowed her to stand up to racism. First, one of Rosa’s traits is courtesy she never gets mad with someone or lashes out. On the day Rosa was arrested she was very

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    Rosa Parks Legacy

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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955, to obey a bus driver's demand that she give up her seat to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin

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    Rosa Parks Speech

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    Rosa Parks, known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ("Walk of Fame"), started an immense revolution by simply not moving at all. While losing her job, receiving threats, and being forced to relocate her family, Parks still stood powerful in the midst of one of the most vital movements in history ("Walk of Fame"). Parks’s ambition fueled her “stirring passion for equality” (Brinkley 44). Rosa Parks’s arrest was the catalyst of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which then changed the economic, social

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    Rosa Parks Case

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    Although the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision was the early opening of the Civil Rights Movement, the second-hand key player of the revolution toward equal opportunities was Rosa Parks. On December 1st, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her seat that was located in the front of a bus for a white passenger who clearly had the capability to stand (Brunner 1). Her bravery to not surrender her seat for another individual just because of the contrast in their skin

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    A lot of people said Rosa Parks was tired from work, but she was actually tired of moving for the whites. When Ruby Bridges fought segregation she was only six years old. Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges were similar in many ways. But they were also different in many ways. In her early life Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter. When Rosa Parks was two her parents divorced and she moved with her mother and her baby brother

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    Rosa Parks Obstacles

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    didn't matter and were not equal. They couldn’t read or write because of their skin color. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for another person of race. She made a stand and fought for what she believed in. Keywords, discrimination, equal right Carson, Clay borne (1994). The black scholar 2 The Montgomery boycott for an example, December (1955) was unplanned independent act of Rosa Parks. There was another known leader that led that boycott who was a part of the Women's Political

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    The Legend Of Rosa Parks

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    in the seat behind me. I later learned her name was Rosa Parks. We hit the last stop before my stop and a very large group of working men and women from the factory across the street got on the bus. Everyone sat down and one man was left standing. A tall and muscular built man was left standing, so the bus driver told every black person in the front section to get up and move to sit or stand at the back of the bus. Everyone moved but that Rosa. When the bus driver saw her not move from her seat to

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