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    I have done some reading in Rosa Parks. I have read that her real name was Rosa Louise McCauley she was born on February4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama‚ US. After her parents divorce‚ rosa her mother and sibling to pine level‚ Alabama here where Rosa maternal grandparents lived‚ who were former slaves. Rosa attended segregated school throughout her childhood‚ which her and her sibling had to walk to while the white student in her community rode a bus. She also attended a secondary school but had

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    injustice has been an on going issue. Many people took part in the fight for racial equality‚ some had positive effects and some had negative effects. One person who had many positive effects was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks influenced the Montgomery Boycott that eventually led to the lifting of segregated seating laws for public transportation. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. She attended local schools until the age of eleven where she then attended the Industrial

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    Rosa Louise Parks was an extraordinary African American civil rights activist whose heroic actions sparked the beginning of the monumental civil rights movement within the United States of America. Rosa Parks firmly stood up for what she believed and it was time for her to show the world who she was and what she believed in. Rosa was born on February 4th‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Every since she was a little girl‚ her mother knew that God had a special purpose for her. She was raised by her

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    Rosa Parks A Hero

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    I believe that Rosa Parks is a hero and this is why. On December 1‚ 1955 after a long day at work she took the bus back home. She noticed that it was the same bus driver from her previous bus ride from earlier that day‚ so she sat down on the bus and at the moment there wasn’t any white people. A few stops later‚ a few white people got in the bus‚ everyone but one man got a seat and was left standing up. So the bus driver said to give up those seats to of the colored women‚ gave up their seat

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    A person I admire Nelson Mandela Before the abrogation of Apartheid‚ South Africa was a country characterized by conflict‚ unspeakable suffering and inconceivable injustice. Minority ruled over majority‚ and society was deeply divided. Discriminatory treatment is not at all an absent unfairness in the rest of the world – quite the reverse. South Africa was simply the first country to name it – “Apartheid” literally meaning ‘separate-ness’‚ and administrate it as a system. People of any other

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    Rosa Parks Section 1 Rosa Parks‚ her full name is Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. When Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee Alabama and died October 24‚ 2005 at age of 92. She turn out to be the first lady in the nation’s history to lie in a state at the U.S. Capital. During that period in the US history‚ Blacks were not allowed to register as easily as white people. they had to take a literacy test before they were given their voter’s registration. they also were only

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    choose one of a million may take you between being successful ‚or a failure. The majority of paths that life can take you to be successful rather than a failure are the paths that have you to endure hardships that block the way. The path that Rosa Parks took wasn’t that simple to begin with‚being an African American had some hardships in the path. Most times these hardships have to deal with discrimination and being born before the civil acts movement. Having few to little rights didn’t stop her

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    Someone I admire… Malala Yousafzai Who’s Malala ? A brave 16 year old girl from PAKISTAN. Become an activist for children (especially girls) rights and education. About Malala: In 2009‚ Malala wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban rule and her views on promoting education for girls. She began to rise in prominence‚ giving interviews in prints and on television and taking a position as chairperson of the District Child Assembly Swat. Her father is a poet

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    Rosa Parks Biography

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    Rosa Parks real name was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was born in Alabama in Tuskegee on February 14‚ 1913. Rosa Parks moved to Montgomery‚ Alabama when she was 11 and attended high school. She went to an laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She later dropped out of school when she was 16 to take care of her sick grandmother and eventually her long-term ill mother. Rosa got married to Raymond Parks when she was 19 years old. Raymond was self educated and was a continuing

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    'In Memoriam': Rosa Parks

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    In Memoriam: Rosa Parks is an article on the Mother of the civils’ right movement‚ Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa Parks is the women that refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. She is the reason the bus boycott started and is a strong and inspirational women in black history. She admitted that she did get up out of her seat because she was tired. Not psychically tired but tired of giving in to white people. She was tired of being single out base

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