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    Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges are different from each other, but also similar. They both stood up for something very important, they both thought that segregation and racism were very bad. Rosa parks would not get up from her seat so that a white person could sit down and she would have to stand up. Ruby Bridges went to school that was full of white people and took all the segregation. They both showed acts of courage and bravery. Rosa Parks hated racism and segregation. On December 1st, 1955 she

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    Rosa Parks is a brave, courageous, and smart. She wasn’t afraid of standing up for what she believed in. Without her, the chain reaction of the bus boycott people of skin color might not have the rights they have today. Rosa Parks was judged by her skin color which caused her to initiate the civil rights movement and made her the mother of civil rights. -> Finish your intro. This is just your thesis! Rosa Parks was judged by her skin color. Parks left a long day of work to get on the bus to go home

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    Rosa Louise Parks            The woman who earned the title “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”, Rosa Louise Parks is an enormous inspiration to the African American race. Rosa was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to James and Leona McCauley (The Life of Rosa Parks). Both of Rosa’s parents were born before slavery was banished from the United States. They suffered a difficult childhood, and after emancipation the conditions for blacks were not much better. Rosa’s mother was a schoolteacher

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    Rosa Parks General Purpose: To pay tribute to Rosa Parks. Specific Purpose: To inform about the contributions of Rosa Parks and pay tribute. Introduction I. Attention Getter: “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others” (Xavier University). This inspirational quote belongs to Rosa Parks “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”. II. Motivation for listening: We all are aware of Rosa Park’s great display of courage on December 1, 1955 when she stood her ground and refused

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    Rosa Parks’ involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences. She chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest segregation rights, and she achieved success using this controversial method of standing up for what she strongly believes to be right. Civil disobedience is the form of protest of which the protesters deliberately violate a law (Suber). The aim of this civil disobedience was to bring a change in laws or government policies (Brownlee). To understand Rosa Parks

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    The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks is one of the most famous people in the history of the American Civil Rights movement, for her refusal to “move to the back of the bus” on December 1, 1955. Although her moment of protest was not a planned event , it certainly proved to be a momentous one. The nature of Rosa Park’s protest, the response of the authorities of Montgomery, the tactics adopted by the civil rights leaders in Montgomery, and the role eventually played by Federal authority

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    Rosa Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up her seat but yet she is the one who made the biggest impact. Rosa Parks is an American Civil Right Movement activist. She was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks is also referred as “the first lady of civil rights” and the mother of the freedom movement. Rosa Parks is a big deal because she was the first black women to sit in a white section on the bus and did not surrender her seat when asked to move and sit in her

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    Rosa Louise Parks was a civil rights activist. She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama(www.rosaparks.org). She was the only child when her brother Sylvester died. She was born to Leona McCauley and James McCauley. Her parents were farmers. They had other jobs on the side as well. Her mom was a teacher and her dad was a carpenter. She was raised in Pine Level, Alabama. She attended a school in a rural school until the age eleven. When she was eleven she moved to Montgomery to live with

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    Rosa Parks is a very significant person to our history of segregation. Rosa Parks is known for an event that took place on December 1, 1955 on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa had just finished working at her seamstress job and she was was riding home on a city bus as usual. When the bus driver came back and told her she needed to move so a white man could sit in her seat, when she refused she was arrested. I chose Rosa Parks because she was a strong women who fought against segregation/racism

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    Quotes From Rosa Parks

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    In the year of 1955, Rosa Parks walked downtown after work and enters a insulate bus that she always takes home. White Man: There is no seat for me sir, could you do something?
 Bus Driver: No problem, give me a minute. Stands up and walks to the first colored seat row. Bus Driver: All four of you, stand up, make some space for this man. The three black men stand up. Bus Driver: Pardon me, Ma’am, did you hear me? This noblemam needs a place to sit in, move! Rosa Parks: I decline to give up

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