In this writing I will be writing about the historic events in Rosa Parks life which ultimately led to the way blacks live today. I will also talk about how she shaped present day for black people all around the country. I will write about the great person she is and always be remembered as. Rosa parks was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama. When she was two years old she moved to Pine Level Alabama with her parents James and Leona McCauley. Her parents separated shortly after her brother, Sylvester, was born, in 1955. Rosa’s mother was a teacher, and the family valued education. At age 11 Rosa moved to Montgomery Alabama, and soon attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ college
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Nixon was there when Parks was bailed out later that evening. For years Nixon had hoped to find a courageous black person, like Rosa Parks, of honesty and integrity to become the plaintiff in a case that might become the validity of segregation laws. Whilen sitting in Parks’ home, Nixon soon convinced her, her husband, and her mother that she was that Plaintiff. An idea came about that on the day of Monday December 5th, the day Parks’ trial, the black people of Montgomery would Boycott all the buses. 35,000 flyers were being copied, by midnight, to be sent home with black school children, to let their parents know about the boycott. Parks was found guilty later that day at her trial, on December 5th, of violating segregation laws, given a suspended sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. Black participation in the boycott was much larger than even optimists in the community had thought. Nixon and some ministers eventually decided to take advantage of the momentum, forming the Montgomery Improvement Association(MIA) to manage the boycott, and they elected reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr.- new to Montgomery-and just 23 years old- as MIA’s …show more content…
Parks became an administrative aide in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. in 1965, a post she held until her 1988 retirement. Her husband, brother, and mother all died of cancer between 1977 and 1979. In 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond parks institute for self development, to serve Detroit’s youth. While Rosa Parks was retired she traveled and wrote an autobiography, “Rosa Parks: My story.” In 1999 Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. When she died at age 92, on October 24, 2005, she became the first woman in the nation to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Rosa Parks is a very important icon to all african americans. She showed to not only fight for what you believe, but strive for it. A lot of people, not just blacks, look up to Rosa Parks for what she did. She showed heart and integrity for standing up for not only herself, but for all black people. Rosa Parks will never be forgotten for what she did. To some she was a horrible black defiant woman, but to most she was a wonderful and successful woman. Either way Rosa Parks made an impact on millions of lives, I think that was hers, Martin Luther King’s, and Malcolm X’s plan the whole time. Later, six years before she died, Rosa Parks filed a lawsuit against a
Nixon was there when Parks was bailed out later that evening. For years Nixon had hoped to find a courageous black person, like Rosa Parks, of honesty and integrity to become the plaintiff in a case that might become the validity of segregation laws. Whilen sitting in Parks’ home, Nixon soon convinced her, her husband, and her mother that she was that Plaintiff. An idea came about that on the day of Monday December 5th, the day Parks’ trial, the black people of Montgomery would Boycott all the buses. 35,000 flyers were being copied, by midnight, to be sent home with black school children, to let their parents know about the boycott. Parks was found guilty later that day at her trial, on December 5th, of violating segregation laws, given a suspended sentence and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs. Black participation in the boycott was much larger than even optimists in the community had thought. Nixon and some ministers eventually decided to take advantage of the momentum, forming the Montgomery Improvement Association(MIA) to manage the boycott, and they elected reverend Dr. Martin Luther King jr.- new to Montgomery-and just 23 years old- as MIA’s …show more content…
Parks became an administrative aide in the Detroit office of Congressman John Conyers Jr. in 1965, a post she held until her 1988 retirement. Her husband, brother, and mother all died of cancer between 1977 and 1979. In 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond parks institute for self development, to serve Detroit’s youth. While Rosa Parks was retired she traveled and wrote an autobiography, “Rosa Parks: My story.” In 1999 Parks was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor the United States bestows on a civilian. When she died at age 92, on October 24, 2005, she became the first woman in the nation to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Rosa Parks is a very important icon to all african americans. She showed to not only fight for what you believe, but strive for it. A lot of people, not just blacks, look up to Rosa Parks for what she did. She showed heart and integrity for standing up for not only herself, but for all black people. Rosa Parks will never be forgotten for what she did. To some she was a horrible black defiant woman, but to most she was a wonderful and successful woman. Either way Rosa Parks made an impact on millions of lives, I think that was hers, Martin Luther King’s, and Malcolm X’s plan the whole time. Later, six years before she died, Rosa Parks filed a lawsuit against a