How Did Rosa Parks Influence The Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks is internationally recognized as the founder of the civil rights movement, and this is granted to the infamous bus boycott led by her in Montgomery, Alabama, and her other efforts to end segregation in the United States. Historians often date the beginning of the civil rights movements in the United Sates to Parks bus boycott on December 1, 1955. On this date, a young Rosa Parks was to change history forever by refusing to give her seat up to a Caucasian passenger on the bus, and move to the back of the bus amongst the other people of colour. Parks young and tired from her hard labour as a seamstress, remained in her seat, despite the bus driver asking her to move. She was arrested and fined for her brave act, under the jurisdiction that she was violating a city ordinance. The arrest and her time in jail was brief, a woman heavily reputed in the African American community, her single act of defiance sparked a movement that ended segregation in America; she was to be adored and forever admired by activists for freedom everywhere. Unknowingly, she would become one of the most famous names to be associated with the Post World War II, Era of Civil Rights.

Her childhood brought her experiences with discrimination and helped …show more content…
In Michigan she found employment as a secretary and receptionist for U.S. Representative John Conyer’s congressional office. She also held a seat on the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During her lifetime Rosa Parks received many awards, including the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP’s highest award, and the Martin Luther King Jr Award. On September 9, 1996, she was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On October 24, 2005, at the age of ninety-two she had passed away from dementia, and was put to rest in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, she is only of two people of African descent buried