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    Mylinh Bushnell Mrs. Baldwin Rosa Parks- Rosa Parks was a independent woman who stood up for herself, because of her viewpoint on what was right or wrong. She also stuck to this viewpoint, and didn’t let anyone change it. Rosa stood up for herself and others. No wonder she is a big game changer in equal rights! She was very courageous, independent, strong, and hardworking. This is all stated in this article, on how Rosa Parks was changed the world for the better. Rosa Parks always stuck up for…

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    Rosa Parks Perseverance

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    “I don’t think I should have to stand up;” (Parks, achievement.org interview, 1) the nine simple words that sparked an uprising among people of colour in 1955. Rosa Parks, one of the many influential innovators of the world, shows resiliency factors through her past actions. Dozens of traits make up a personality with enough layers to affect the world even decades later, Rosa Parks’ most prominent being perseverance, independence, and relationships. Independence is the first word that comes to…

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    Rosa Parks faced a lot of hard challenges in the time of 1931. She was a great reenactor and leader. She made a huge impact on human race. She wasn’t like all people now days. Rosa was once the girl who had to walk to school, while other white kids rode a bus to school. Rosa was getting sick and tired of the way people were treating her and her kind, so she made a movement that affected everyone. There was a group of them that were done with getting mistreated, and the practiced what would…

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    Rosa Parks Disobedience

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    reasons false and valid. Rosa Parks disobeyed the law by not giving up her seat to the white person, she believed in equality. Her disobedience is what caused people with color to be able to sit in the front of the bus regardless of race. “It is better to live for one day as a lion than for a thousand years as a sheep.” - Tibetan Proverb Disobedience is the lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression. Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Parks has shown one…

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    Racism By Rosa Parks

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    shall overcome. – Rosa Parks If we look at our beautiful country we can tell there is a divide and a major one at that; which is separation. From the early United States to the present there has been a separation between us Americans. Unfortunately, we cannot all be one because there is always someone who opposes, and from one becomes two to four and so one. It takes a major catastrophe for all of us Americans to unite and be one until then we are at war with ourselves. Rosa Parks said the quote…

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    Rosa Parks Museum

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    be very beneficial to their learning experience. Montgomery has Selma to Montgomery National Historical Trail which is a national park are landmarks that involves decoration but it also have a meaning behind. For number one it represents different phases in our history. It tells a lot about history and the impact that that it had on America as a whole. The Rosa Parks museum has value and attitude behind it can show an individual about an important time that happened over 50 years ago. Things…

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    differences around then just being the same. The conformist “Boxer” was a naive and ignorant horse who is willing to follow all of Napoleon’s rules and laws according to the 7 commandments that the animals and Old Major organized. The nonconformist “Rosa Parks” who did not give up her seat to a white individual in the bus. The world needs both of these concepts in order…

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    started when, Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat. She was arrested because of the Montgomery, Alabama, ordinance that required blacks to sit in the back of the bus and if the white section of the bus was full, the African Americans must yield their seats to white people. The day Rosa Parks was arrested the whole white section of the bus was full, and a white male made Rosa give up her seat. She refused. so tTherefore, she was arrested. Soon after her arrest, Rosa Parks got…

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    According to ‘Rosa Parks Biography’, “Rosa went on to attend a segregated, one-room school in Pine Level, Alabama, that often lacked many school supplies such as desks. African American students were forced to walk from home to school starting from the 1st grade through the 6th grade, while the city of Pine Level provided a bus transportation as well as a new school building for white students”.2 Since Rosa Parks could not do anything about it at such a young age and had get over it. ‘Rosa Parks…

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    Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born on 4th February 1913, in a city called Tuskegee, Alabama, United states. Mrs Parks got married at the age of 20 to a man named Raymond Parks. Rosa Parks fought for civil rights. A huge act she did was the Montgomery bus boycott where she was one of the people that lead it. She was also involved in a bus argument which led her to jail and also the boycott later. Early life/What motivated her: When Rosa Parks was younger she always felt bad about the way Black…

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