Rosa Parks Biography Essay

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 life as she continued to work for the “Black People's Rights” across the world. First of all, Rosa Park’s early life was troubling, but was filled with much success. As said at “Academy of Achievement” Rosa Parks was born February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and her parents, James McCauley who was a carpenter, and Leona McCauley who was a teacher, separated shortly after Rosa’s brother were born in 1915. Later on, at the age of eleven Rosa finally attended the “Alabama …show more content…
Rosa climbed on the bus, which was full with over 70% black people, to go home from work after a long and tiring day. The bus began to get more and more crowded, and as some white men got on the bus the driver ordered four black people to stand up and let the white’s take their seat. Each black person stood up, except for one, and that one person was Rosa Parks. Once she refused to give up her seat a policeman was called to the bus and they arrested Rosa. This was how the boycott began. After Rosa spent less then one day in jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the new Montgomery Improvement Association. The association called for a boycott of the city-owned bus company and it lasted 381 days. The Supreme Court ended up outlawing racial segregation on public transportation, which caused for celebration around the world. Rosa’s choice changed the life of many people just on her way