Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was an African American that was publicly known as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 13, 1913. The first daughter and child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley. Rosa Parks had one other sibling named Sylvester McCauley. He was born almost three years after Parks and is now deceased. As her and her brother grew up, her family moved to Pine Level, Alabama where Rosa Parks’ was raised and went to school. Park’s school was no fancy, metropolitan school. It was very rural and unsophisticated. When Rosa Parks finished up her education at only age eleven, her mother enlisted her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school. After she
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Her refusal to give a white man her seat on a public bus in 1955 was the cause of a huge outbreak of a protest that resounded all over the United States. Her very strong act changed the way America’s view on blacks and changed the route of history. On her way home one evening she took the city bus. In the process of walking on the bus she paid her bus fare and headed to the back where the “colored” marked seats were located. As you may know the public buses back then were segregated which means Rosa Parks had to go to the back where the “colored” marked seats were. In the process of the bus driver stopped to pick up more passengers, the “white” marked seats were all fulfilled by someone as were the “colored” marked seats. A white man walks onto the bus and was not happy to see all the seats have been taken. At first, Rosa did not realize that the bus driver was the same driver that had also left her in the cold rain a few years back. So, the bus driver tried to fix the man’s problem by walking to the back and asking Rosa Parks and three other African Americans to stand so the white man could sit down. She refused, she said she had been working all day and was tired. Upon her refusal, she ended up getting arrested and convicted of disorderly conduct. This resulted in many boycotts and protests all around America. On the day of Rosa Parks’ trial, the boycotters asked that every African American stay off the city buses on her trial day. It rained the day of her trial, but that did not stop the African American body from protesting. Some carpooled, while others rode in cabs that were managed by African Americans. Those cabs charged the same as the city buses which was ten cents. Most of the community walked. Some as far as twenty miles. The evening after the successful boycott, a group of people huddled together at a local church to talk about their ways of boycotting. At this
Her refusal to give a white man her seat on a public bus in 1955 was the cause of a huge outbreak of a protest that resounded all over the United States. Her very strong act changed the way America’s view on blacks and changed the route of history. On her way home one evening she took the city bus. In the process of walking on the bus she paid her bus fare and headed to the back where the “colored” marked seats were located. As you may know the public buses back then were segregated which means Rosa Parks had to go to the back where the “colored” marked seats were. In the process of the bus driver stopped to pick up more passengers, the “white” marked seats were all fulfilled by someone as were the “colored” marked seats. A white man walks onto the bus and was not happy to see all the seats have been taken. At first, Rosa did not realize that the bus driver was the same driver that had also left her in the cold rain a few years back. So, the bus driver tried to fix the man’s problem by walking to the back and asking Rosa Parks and three other African Americans to stand so the white man could sit down. She refused, she said she had been working all day and was tired. Upon her refusal, she ended up getting arrested and convicted of disorderly conduct. This resulted in many boycotts and protests all around America. On the day of Rosa Parks’ trial, the boycotters asked that every African American stay off the city buses on her trial day. It rained the day of her trial, but that did not stop the African American body from protesting. Some carpooled, while others rode in cabs that were managed by African Americans. Those cabs charged the same as the city buses which was ten cents. Most of the community walked. Some as far as twenty miles. The evening after the successful boycott, a group of people huddled together at a local church to talk about their ways of boycotting. At this