America's Gift to my Generation America's gift to my generation is freedom and equality in the past, many things have happened. For instance, we used to have slaves and not all races and gender were equal. People were treated differently today than in the past. An example is blacks and whites had separate classes, sides of the bus, and places to live. Also, women were paid differently and they could only work at home because of their gender. Rosa Parks was known as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". She was known as this because she stood up for what she thought was right. One day, she was told by a bus driver named James F. Blake to give up her seat in the "colored
