Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. She was born February 4‚ 1913. She was raised in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Rosa Parks moved in 1957 to Detroit‚ Michigan. Rosa refused to give up her seat on a greyhound bus. Rosa’s action lead to the bus boycott. Rosa Parks died on October 24‚ 2005. Rosa actions led to the bus boycott. Rosa was symbol of the power of nonviolent protests. Rosa Parks is called the mother of
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always tainted as an unintentional coincidence. Rosa Parks’ incident on the bus‚ where she was asked to give up her seat to a white man‚ made her known as the face of the civil rights movement. Even though she took bold and clear actions‚ she was labeled as a quiet‚ old woman who happened to be in an unfortunate incident accidentally. In the article‚ “ How History Got the Rosa Parks Story Wrong”‚ Theoharis uses documentary evidence to show how Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist‚ a rebel and an outspoken
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Rosa Parks A very inspirational civil rights activist once said‚ “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.” This civil rights activist is sometimes recognized as the "Mother of the U.S. civil rights movement" (Encyclopædia Britannica) . Her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is the most influential women in the last century. Parks was a seamstress‚ secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored
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Thanks to the courage of Rosa Parks‚ just one bus trip changed the future of the whole nation and had a huge impact on the movement in support of civil rights throughout the world. At that time in America‚ and especially in the southern states‚ the so-called laws of Jim Crow‚ adopted after the Civil War‚ were being operated. These acts concerned almost every aspect of the everyday life of the representatives of the colored population and severely restricted their rights: for blacks‚ there were separate
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preceded civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ (on December 1‚ 1955) by nine months. Ms. Colvin was a student at Booker T. Washington High School. Colvin’s family didn’t own a car‚ so she relied on the city’s gold-and-green buses to get to school. On March 2‚ 1955‚ she boarded a public bus and‚ shortly thereafter‚ refused to give up her seat to a white man. Colvin was coming home from school that day when she got on a Capital Heights bus downtown at the same place Parks boarded another bus months later
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Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her mother’s name was Leona McCauley and her father’s name was James McCauley. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a rural school teacher. Soon after Rosa’s little brother‚ Sylvester Edwards‚ was born‚ her parents separated in 1915. While her father went north‚ her mother‚ brother‚ and she moved to Pine Level‚ Alabama to live with her mother’s parents (Notable Black American Women). Rosa McCauley did not have all
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“B4 Rosa – Here I Stand‚” “Najee Dorsey.” Claudette Colvin was fifteen-years-old when she refused to give up her bus seat. A young girl living in Montgomery was one of first to come in contact with bus segregation and refuse‚ but not many people know that. “Black leaders believed her young age‚ complexion and low social standing did not make for a strong face for the Civil Rights Movement‚ so her act went largely unrecognized.” (Rushworth) Her age played a huge role in many reasons why she wasn’t
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Obama’s attitude toward Rosa Parks is a positive attitude‚ which proves that Obama feels Rosa Parks should be honored and his heroic figure in the development of America. The first reason to this‚ is because throughout Obama’s two speeches his makes statements about how such a powerful and important person Rosa Parks is. Furthermore‚ Obama feels that Rosa Parks is a major figure in America’s past‚ Obama proclaim February 4‚ 2013‚ as the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Rosa Parks. The examples below
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inspirational women of all time was Rosa Parks. By one action she helped change the lives of a majority ofAfrican Americans and more importantly society as a whole. Rosa Parks sparked the attention of America when she refused to settle for the black (lower class)standards. Not only did she help change the lives for many African Americans but she helped equality for all men and women in the United States. By one brave women our world will be forever thankful. Rosa Parks was raised in her Grandparents
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Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery‚ Alabama bus spurred a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many accolades during her lifetime‚ including the NAACP’s highest award. Civil Rights Pioneer Famed civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4‚ 1913
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