Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. She was of African ancestry, though one of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a slave of Native American descent. She was small as a child and suffered poor health with chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a…

Civil Rights Activist, Rosa Parks once said, “People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Rosa Brainy). Rosa Parks’ involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences, she chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest bus segregation laws, and she did achieve success using this controversial method of standing up for what she strongly believes to…

Rosa Parks is the mother of civil rights for many reasons, and she deserved it because she stood up for herself and her rights as a black woman. Rosa Parks made the african americans as a group change because it shows that all people should be threaded equally and fare no matter what the problem is. Rosa moved with her parents at a young age to be closer to her father’s parents. She also had a brother named Sylvester who was born a couple years after she was. Rosa grew up and eventually went to…

Back in the day when Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr were alive African Americans and people of different color, ethnicity, and religion didn’t have many Civil Rights. People of white race were described as the most dominant race or the race that had the most rights. Back then there were even water fountains which had labels on them. If the water fountain said caucasian and you were African American you couldn’t use that fountain you would have to use the one that said African American.…

chance of occurring. Peaceful resistance positively impacts a free society because the exercised freedom of some individuals can infringe on the freedoms of others, making it the duty of the citizens to flag the issue through peaceful resistance. Rosa Parks was a brave woman, knowing the consequences she still waves in her pool known as society by refusing to get up from a seat. Something that might seem trivial to us now was hugely symbolic back then, making her an icon of her time. Alongside…

Rosa Parks became a civil rights activist by just refusing to move seats on the Montgomery bus boycott. because the caucasian man was going to sit there. That was a brave thing to do in that period of time. Rosa Parks were born on February 4, 1913, and died on October 2, 2005. She died a hero, she was a brave and outgoing woman. Rosa Parks worked at the NAACP in the year 1943 as a voter regression and delegation. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks was going on the…

never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right" acknowledged Rosa Parks. She is recognized as "mother of the civil rights movement" (imdiversity.com, 1 ) in America. Parks is mostly remembered as the woman who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. There after she set motion a National Civil Rights Movement for racial equality, and changed the course of American history. Rosa parks is a big part of history changing events because of all the heroic…

Rosa Parks is an African American woman, during the civil rights movement, who put her name in the history books, and became a role model for everyone when she performed a very courageous act. Growing up around racism and poverty as a kid sparked a deep hatred for racism against blacks. She joined the N.A.A.C.P. were she met people of all colors, fighting for everyone to be equal. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa was arrested when she didn’t give up a seat on a bus to a white man. Rosa was raised…

Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist (1913-2005) who was born Rosa Louis McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa’s fame came from her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus. Her action caused a public outcry and a city wide boycott which ultimately launched efforts to end segregation between races in public areas. Rosa Parks’ childhood is credited to her being able to refuse the white person the seat on the bus because while she was young her…

Rosa Parks. Proper noun. An African American female worker from Montgomery, Alabama who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white person, as she was legally required to do. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting down on a bus driving home after a long day of work. A white man came onto the bus, and all the seats were filled. The bus driver told her to move, and she said “No.” Rosa Parks was arrested because she did not move for a white man to sit down. On October…