Rosa Parks

CLANG! The cell door slammed shut! Clink! The officer locked the door leaving Rosa Parks in the darkness of her cell. She had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, which led her to the big house. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called “The First Lady” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement.” Rosa achieved so much, but to fully realize what she did you have to know about her early life, her great accomplishments, and her later…

overcome”(“Outstanding Women in History” 1). Rosa Parks had a pretty nice childhood, of course she had some difficult times in her life, but Rosa was smart enough to figure them out. Rosa was not a known person, the older she became the better her life became, of course she had struggles but without those struggles in her life Rosa would not of became the women she was. Rosa had difficult time when she was a child, but that turned her into what she was. When Rosa Parks was little her family…

bathrooms or even drink out of the same water fountains. African American had to ride on the back of the bus where it said “colored’’ when the buses started to get full they would have to give up their seats to white people. On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Alabama when she was asked to move out of her seat when she denied to move, a policeman came and placed her under arrest. She was arrested for violating the Alabama bus segregation laws, She was also fined fourteen dollars.…

Lauren Boyd, On December 1, 1955, I was on the bus when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. I was actually sitting across the aisle from Rosa Parks when she refused the request from the bus driver to stand up. Of course I did not have the courage that Rosa Parks did. When the bus driver told me to get up, I did as he said. But looking back now I wish that I or someone else would not have moved, and would have sat with her as a way to peacefully protest civil rights for African…

African-American activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama transport caused one of the biggest bus boycott controversy. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to withhold the law requiring isolation on city transports. Rosa Parks receive numerous honors among her lifetime, including the NAACP 's most female courage honor. Rosa Parks ' adolescence carried her initial encounters with racial…

Rosa Parks was very famous for standing up for her rights. She became an icon of the black civil rights just by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. She was an African American living in Montgomery Alabama. In 1995 on December 1st she was heading home from work she rode a public bus. When a white man told her to give him her seat she said no and did not get up. After those many people started to boycott the public trains. This was out up by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After these turn of…

If it wasn’t for Rosa Parks the african-american community’s rights would not be anywhere they are today. There are so many extraordinary traits and words that could describe the amazing Rosa Parks. The three words that I would mainly use to outline her as an individual would be brave and strong, amazing at keeping her composure, and a person who never gives up. She was the one who sparked the huge upcoming fire that is ending racism or segregation. Brave and strong, were the first set of…

that were assigned for the black people on the bus. They are not sure, there is a dispute if there was an extra seat in the black section. Rosa Parks was located directly behind the whites. The driver requested that the black people that were directly behind the whites move further back, so that the white person that was being attended, had a seat. Rosa parks was then arrested for not listening to the orders of the bus drivers. After that, Martin Luther King used a non-violence approach to…

Rosa Parks was sitting in the first row for coloured people on the bus. There was no more seats left in the “white” section. The bus driver then told her and three others to move back, so the white people didn’t have to sit with the blacks. Rosa refused to move and got arrested. Rosa went to court and was found guilty and was fined $14. Rosa then had to overcome personal and financial hardships. She lost her job as a seamstress. She faced threats to her family and people who supported her…

Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She lived with family but after her parents had separated her mother moved the family go to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her grandmother. Here, she experienced racial equality during her childhood. She had to learn a separate classroom reserved for blacks; school supplies are not adequate for the white students. While white students are taking the bus to school, the blacks students including Rose Park had to walk to school. In…