Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Rosa parks defense of her civil rights earned her a permanent place in American history. She did a small devotion, yet today it is known to be the most courageous action from a humble person like Rosa Parks. Her quiet fight for equality and freedom for millions impacted generations upon generations of Americans and tore down the walls of segregation and discrimination. Rosa Parks background, achievements, recognitions, honors, and death are contributions to modern civil rights movement. Rosa Parks, first child of James a carpenter and Leona a teacher, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913.(Academy of Achievements)
As Rosa was growing up she didn’t see her father again, and was prone to sickness and chronic illness. She began working at picking cotton for $1 every 100 lb., because of her fathers absence she became responsible at an early age. At age two she moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her grandparents. Later at age eleven, Rosa enrolled in a private school in Montgomery Industrial where she became an activists, which was founded by liberal-mind women from the Northern U.S.(Academy of Achievements) She graduated from Spring Hill Church School where racism, segregation, and struggles were barriers blacks had to struggle in Montgomery. There were no public schools for that reason, and the “Jim Crow Laws” were in effect during that time.(Oracle ThinkQuest)
During Rosa Parks adulthood she fell in love with Raymond Parks, a barber man and a active men in the struggles of right for the African Americans. She worked as a seamstress and at a ward department store. Later in 1943, she joined the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) and was elected secretary of the branch in Montgomery. (Oracle ThinkQuest) One afternoon in Montgomery, Rosa Parks rode the bus home and sat in the “negro section” and when a white man was standing the bus driver, J.F. Blake, asked her to stand and allow the white man.
As Rosa was growing up she didn’t see her father again, and was prone to sickness and chronic illness. She began working at picking cotton for $1 every 100 lb., because of her fathers absence she became responsible at an early age. At age two she moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her grandparents. Later at age eleven, Rosa enrolled in a private school in Montgomery Industrial where she became an activists, which was founded by liberal-mind women from the Northern U.S.(Academy of Achievements) She graduated from Spring Hill Church School where racism, segregation, and struggles were barriers blacks had to struggle in Montgomery. There were no public schools for that reason, and the “Jim Crow Laws” were in effect during that time.(Oracle ThinkQuest)
During Rosa Parks adulthood she fell in love with Raymond Parks, a barber man and a active men in the struggles of right for the African Americans. She worked as a seamstress and at a ward department store. Later in 1943, she joined the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) and was elected secretary of the branch in Montgomery. (Oracle ThinkQuest) One afternoon in Montgomery, Rosa Parks rode the bus home and sat in the “negro section” and when a white man was standing the bus driver, J.F. Blake, asked her to stand and allow the white man.