Rosa Parks Research Paper

Rosa Louise Parks was born on February 4th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa went to school at industrial for girls. She also went to alabama state teachers college for negroes. On December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks got on the cleveland avenue bus so she could go home. She sat down in the first couple of rows on the bus. (“Rosa Parks”) In montgomery all the buses had to be segregated. The drivers of the bus had to have separate but equal seats for black and white people that ride the bus. They separated them by putting a line where white people were supposed to sit and where black people are suppose to sit. While Rosa was still on the bus there were more and more white people getting on at each bus stop. After a while the bus was full and the driver …show more content…
When she got arrested the police took her to headquarters and later on that night she got out on bail. This event took place in montgomery alabama. The people that had something to do with Rosa Parks event was E.D Nixon and he was the head of the local chapter of the NAACP planning to organize a boycott of montgomery city buses. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. On December 5th was the day rosa parks had to go to trial for her arrest. When she got to the courthouse she went into trial with her attorney. When she was greeted it was 500 people there to support her and they were rooting for her. Rosa’s hearing was about 30 minutes and she was found guilty for violating the local ordinance and she had to pay 10 dollars along with a 4 dollar court fee. This was a really big event that day but Rosa Parks trail had triggered. The montgomery bus boycott was a big success and it went on for for 381 days. Rosa Parks arrest suffered hardship for a few months in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa lost the job she had at the department store and she could’t find another job so she had to leave Montgomery (“Rosa