Rosa Parks 1
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 given certain days to register, usually at times when they were at work. The black people also needed a white to vouch for them, to say that they were worthy to vote. Another requirement was that they own property. Rosa tried several times to register to vote. The first time Rosa parks was turned down, the voter registration worker said that Rosa flunked the literacy test. Rosa knew better then that and on her second try she wrote down all the answers she had written on the twentieth question test so she could fight not getting a card the second time, but she didn't need to worry because she passed the second test and received her card.
Segregation was most visible on the buses in Montgomery. Blacks were told to ride in the back ten rows of the buses. The first ten rows were for white people and the ten rows were whatever the bus driver wanted them to be. Many times the Blacks had to enter the front door to pay their toll, exiting the front door and go in the back door of the bus. The bus driver would quite often drive away while the blacks were walking to the back of the door. (Douglas Brinkley. "Rosa Parks" ) Book. One evening Rosa had a busy at work on December 1, 1955. She was preparing for a seminar for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and for elections. Rosa Parks has been an activist during civil rights defender through the war. When a petite 42 year old African American woman seamstress got on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama
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 given certain days to register, usually at times when they were at work. The black people also needed a white to vouch for them, to say that they were worthy to vote. Another requirement was that they own property. Rosa tried several times to register to vote. The first time Rosa parks was turned down, the voter registration worker said that Rosa flunked the literacy test. Rosa knew better then that and on her second try she wrote down all the answers she had written on the twentieth question test so she could fight not getting a card the second time, but she didn't need to worry because she passed the second test and received her card.
Segregation was most visible on the buses in Montgomery. Blacks were told to ride in the back ten rows of the buses. The first ten rows were for white people and the ten rows were whatever the bus driver wanted them to be. Many times the Blacks had to enter the front door to pay their toll, exiting the front door and go in the back door of the bus. The bus driver would quite often drive away while the blacks were walking to the back of the door. (Douglas Brinkley. "Rosa Parks" ) Book. One evening Rosa had a busy at work on December 1, 1955. She was preparing for a seminar for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and for elections. Rosa Parks has been an activist during civil rights defender through the war. When a petite 42 year old African American woman seamstress got on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama