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Rosa Parks Did you know when Rosa Parks was young the KKK was marching down the street when her dad was outside holding a shotgun?What about the Bus Boycott had 40,000 people get on there bus in two days?90% of black people stayed off of white peoples bus so they lost money.Martin Luther King jr said “Rosa Parks character is impeccable and her dedication was deep-rooted she was one of the most respected in the negro community. This Paragraph will explain what the Montgomery Bus Boycott…

fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” (Rosa Parks). In other words, you must not be afraid to defend your actions as long as your action are justifiable. Park's illustrated peaceful resistance on December 1, 1995, in Montgomery Alabama when she boarded a bus and decided to sit in the middle behind the whites-only section. Parker and three other African Americans were ordered by the driver to sacrifice their seats…

generation,” by Coretta Scott King. I believe that freedom has to be rewon. In every generation freedom has to be rewon because people that make a difference only make a difference in that time of age. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s. In the spring of 1963, he gave a speech “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by…

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it is right"(Parks). Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a society because it makes people aware of the issue(s), educates society and makes a statement without harming others. Through peaceful resistance much more can be accomplished compared to using violent resistance or violent tactics. Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white gentleman is a prime example of how civil disobedience has accomplished so much through the years. When Rosa Parks refused…

Sarlo 1 Mrs. Henderson American History Period 3 February 18, 2017 Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, impacted the 20th Century by helping to initiate the Civil Rights movement, dismantling the Segregation Laws, and the founding of the Institution for Self-Development. At an early age Mrs. Parks faced many injustices wherever she went. This encouraged her to take action instead of sitting back and doing nothing. “She soon…

Segregation Case Involving Bus Ride Dimon Brown Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks, a negro woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus and was arrested. She had been tired after a long day working as a seamstress in a department store. When she got on the bus to go home, she sat on the fifth row- the first row of the colored section. The bus became full which meant that the seats nearer the front were given to the white passengers. The the bus driver, James Blake ordered…

“Come on Makayla! You can do this!” my friend Miranda said to me as I reluctantly climbed the stairs to the roller coaster. “It’s not that scary.” Said my other friend John. Miranda, John, my camp counselor Izzy and I were about to ride our first roller coaster together. This was something that most eight year olds wouldn’t even dare thinking of, much less actually going through with their plans. When we finally made it to the top of the stairs I stopped dead in my tracks and couldn’t move. What…

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Rosa Parks is known today as the’ mother of the civil rights movement” for her arrest for refusing to give up a seat on the bus. No blacks were allowed to sit in the front of the bus back then, blacks had to stand up for a white person if there were no more empty seats on the bus, or give up their seat for a white person. Because supposedly white people were better than them and they didn't matter, they were too different. But Rosa changed everything by not getting up and refusing to give up…