Rosa Parks

refusing to give her seat up, Rosa didn’t know she was making history. She was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on “Feb 4, 1913” (History Staff, 2009). Growing up with her mom she moved to Pine Level, Alabama and she often experienced racial discrimination and racial equality there. The only school she attended in Montgomery were segregated schools. At a young age, her mother taught her how to read. She married at the age of 19 to a man named Raymond Parks. At the time when…

Rosa Parks once said, “ The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks died when she was 92 on October 24 of 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.(1) Her parents were farmers with multiple other jobs on the side. Parks parents got divorced when she was just young and her mother had to raise both Rosa and her brother on her own with the help of Park's great-grandparents, where they lived on their farm in Pine Level, Alabama.(5) Parks married…

Rosa Parks was very famous for standing up for her rights. She became an icon of the black civil rights just by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. She was an African American living in Montgomery Alabama. In 1995 on December 1st she was heading home from work she rode a public bus. When a white man told her to give him her seat she said no and did not get up. After those many people started to boycott the public trains. This was out up by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After these turn of…

Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and raised in Alabama; she is credited for having ignited the massive protest in Alabama after her arrest and conviction after her failure to relinquish her seat for a white in a bus as the law required for all blacks during the time. Her arrest caused the 381 days boycott of the Montgomery bus system and later culminated in the 1956 judgment of the Supreme Court barring any form of segregation in the United States. This growth was at a time when school for black…

If it wasn’t for Rosa Parks the african-american community’s rights would not be anywhere they are today. There are so many extraordinary traits and words that could describe the amazing Rosa Parks. The three words that I would mainly use to outline her as an individual would be brave and strong, amazing at keeping her composure, and a person who never gives up. She was the one who sparked the huge upcoming fire that is ending racism or segregation. Brave and strong, were the first set of…

CLANG! The cell door slammed shut! Clink! The officer locked the door leaving Rosa Parks in the darkness of her cell. She had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, which led her to the big house. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called “The First Lady” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement.” Rosa achieved so much, but to fully realize what she did you have to know about her early life, her great accomplishments, and her later…

about Rosa Parks was written by editors of the website and recently updated on April 28, 2017. Rosa Parks is a famous civil rights activist that refused to give up her seat on an all white passenger bus. This refusal to surrender has made a huge impact on the world today and helped start the end of segregation. Rosa Parks is credited for causing attention to a turbulent time in American History and creating a movement to allow the same freedom for everyone. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks…

overcome”(“Outstanding Women in History” 1). Rosa Parks had a pretty nice childhood, of course she had some difficult times in her life, but Rosa was smart enough to figure them out. Rosa was not a known person, the older she became the better her life became, of course she had struggles but without those struggles in her life Rosa would not of became the women she was. Rosa had difficult time when she was a child, but that turned her into what she was. When Rosa Parks was little her family…

bathrooms or even drink out of the same water fountains. African American had to ride on the back of the bus where it said “colored’’ when the buses started to get full they would have to give up their seats to white people. On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Alabama when she was asked to move out of her seat when she denied to move, a policeman came and placed her under arrest. She was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws, She was also fined fourteen dollars.…

and not many have voiced their opinion and furthered the cause of social justice. However, one individual amongst many, stepped up to the podium, and fought for what she believed in, becoming an icon and model for social justice. This woman is Rosa Parks, and through her efforts, she was able to further the cause of social justice through experiencing racial discrimination in her early life, the montgomery boycott, and through her legacy…