Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus boycott
Civil Right activist, strong, and brave, are the three elements that describe Rosa Parks.
Many people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, but she was so much more. As a well known civil right-activist who refused to give up her seat to a white man, Rosa Parks showed Americans that they cannot be scared and fight for what they believe. She left a lasting legacy as the “The Mother of the Civil rights Movement” by risking her well being and her life to gain African American rights. The origin of Rosa Park’s call to change started when her parents divorced and moved to Pine Level with her brother and mother. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee …show more content…
On December 1,1955 Parks was told to move seats for a white man to sit down and she resisted. She was put in jail and Civil-Rights leaders felt that there needed to be change. This event led her to the idea of having a bus boycott where all African Americans would refuse to take the bus. “Parks was arrested for violation a city law requiring that black and white sit in separate rows on the bus” (Feltzer , pg.176) This means that she was arrested for a law that required that black and white people to sit separate in which she didn’t obey. Unequal laws and problems for all blacks in the South led Rosa to motive of change in …show more content…
“Her ordeal would soon inspire a citywide bus boycott and a ruling that such segregation was illegal.” (Rothman , pg.1) This quote is saying that Rosa didn’t just start the boycott but she inspired people to start taking a stand and recognize that such segregation should be illegal. The Montgomery bus boycott was significant because in 1956 after 382 days of protesting the supreme court finally declared that bus segregation is banned. “ The only tired I was, was giving in”(Parks) Which means Parks wasn’t tired of the physical act of segregation but the quietness and doing the things that white people ordered the black community to do. Rosa contributed to the society by making a boycott which inspired African Americans that all humans should be equal race, gender,
Montgomery Bus boycott
Civil Right activist, strong, and brave, are the three elements that describe Rosa Parks.
Many people know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, but she was so much more. As a well known civil right-activist who refused to give up her seat to a white man, Rosa Parks showed Americans that they cannot be scared and fight for what they believe. She left a lasting legacy as the “The Mother of the Civil rights Movement” by risking her well being and her life to gain African American rights. The origin of Rosa Park’s call to change started when her parents divorced and moved to Pine Level with her brother and mother. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee …show more content…
On December 1,1955 Parks was told to move seats for a white man to sit down and she resisted. She was put in jail and Civil-Rights leaders felt that there needed to be change. This event led her to the idea of having a bus boycott where all African Americans would refuse to take the bus. “Parks was arrested for violation a city law requiring that black and white sit in separate rows on the bus” (Feltzer , pg.176) This means that she was arrested for a law that required that black and white people to sit separate in which she didn’t obey. Unequal laws and problems for all blacks in the South led Rosa to motive of change in …show more content…
“Her ordeal would soon inspire a citywide bus boycott and a ruling that such segregation was illegal.” (Rothman , pg.1) This quote is saying that Rosa didn’t just start the boycott but she inspired people to start taking a stand and recognize that such segregation should be illegal. The Montgomery bus boycott was significant because in 1956 after 382 days of protesting the supreme court finally declared that bus segregation is banned. “ The only tired I was, was giving in”(Parks) Which means Parks wasn’t tired of the physical act of segregation but the quietness and doing the things that white people ordered the black community to do. Rosa contributed to the society by making a boycott which inspired African Americans that all humans should be equal race, gender,