Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama February 4, 1913. She was an African American Civil Rights activist. She was also well known as “the first lady of Civil Rights,” and “mother of the freedom movement” (Rosa parks biography, 2013). She is a well-known and respected as a woman, because of her inspirational, yet defensive action. Parks is famous for her refusal to obey the bus driver who demanded that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was charged with violation of the city code that dealt with segregation, though she technically did not violate the law (Makow, 2005)Although she acted alone with her action, her defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. Her ensuing arrest and trial provoked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the most immense and successful widespread movements against racial segregation in history.
Rosa Parks was raised in Pine Level, Alabama where segregation was very extreme. She walked to and from school every day (Rosa Parks Book). There were no school busses that went to either her home or the school (Rosa Parks Book). Mrs. Parks attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, Booker T Washington High School, and Alabama State College. With the support of Raymond, she was able to attend school again and obtain her high school diploma in 1933. She met and married Raymond Park in 1933 as her first and last mirage even after he passed. Rosa Parks had always carried herself as a hard believer knowing the wrong in segregation ("The story behind," 2012). Though she was very tiresome of being mistreated, she always believed that she was just as good as any other, even the white people who treated her like anything less of a human.
One afternoon, Rosa Parks paid her fare to go the Cleveland Avenue Bus in downtown Montgomery. She was on her way home from work, the Montgomery Fair department store, when she had just so happen to get on the bus with the same bus driver from thirteen years
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama February 4, 1913. She was an African American Civil Rights activist. She was also well known as “the first lady of Civil Rights,” and “mother of the freedom movement” (Rosa parks biography, 2013). She is a well-known and respected as a woman, because of her inspirational, yet defensive action. Parks is famous for her refusal to obey the bus driver who demanded that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was charged with violation of the city code that dealt with segregation, though she technically did not violate the law (Makow, 2005)Although she acted alone with her action, her defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. Her ensuing arrest and trial provoked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the most immense and successful widespread movements against racial segregation in history.
Rosa Parks was raised in Pine Level, Alabama where segregation was very extreme. She walked to and from school every day (Rosa Parks Book). There were no school busses that went to either her home or the school (Rosa Parks Book). Mrs. Parks attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, Booker T Washington High School, and Alabama State College. With the support of Raymond, she was able to attend school again and obtain her high school diploma in 1933. She met and married Raymond Park in 1933 as her first and last mirage even after he passed. Rosa Parks had always carried herself as a hard believer knowing the wrong in segregation ("The story behind," 2012). Though she was very tiresome of being mistreated, she always believed that she was just as good as any other, even the white people who treated her like anything less of a human.
One afternoon, Rosa Parks paid her fare to go the Cleveland Avenue Bus in downtown Montgomery. She was on her way home from work, the Montgomery Fair department store, when she had just so happen to get on the bus with the same bus driver from thirteen years