Rosa Parks Research Paper

Rosa Parks once said, “ The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks died when she was 92 on October 24 of 2005 in Detroit, Michigan.(1) Her parents were farmers with multiple other jobs on the side. Parks parents got divorced when she was just young and her mother had to raise both Rosa and her brother on her own with the help of Park's great-grandparents, where they lived on their farm in Pine Level, Alabama.(5) Parks married Raymond Parks, a barber who was active in the civil rights movement in 1932. After her marriage, she became politically active as well and became a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.(6) Most of her life she was a seamstress and worked at a small workplace called the Montgomery Fair Department Store in the mid-1950’s, and also as a housekeeper for a white couple, Clifford, and Virginia Durr.(5) After a hard day at work for Parks, she headed home on the Montgomery city bus on a December evening in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man riding the bus and was later arrested for it. Parks was also taken into custody and fined $14. At the time of her arrest, the local churches, and other individuals and groups started a boycott by African American …show more content…
Ruby Bridges was six years old when she first entered the William Frantz school, and Rosa Parks was forty-two when she decided she wasn't giving up her seat to a white passenger. They were at very different ages at the time of their protests. Ruby Bridges was the first girl to attend an all white school and Rosa Parks was the first woman to refuse to give her seat to a white man. Another difference is that Rosa made mostly all of her decisions on her own because she was an adult but, Ruby made most of her decisions through her parents because she was so