The Rebellious Life Of Mrs. Rosa Parks Essay

When it comes finding information about a of historical events, there are different methods in which information can be retrieved some of them is by using the internet, reading articles or journal about the topic or reading a book. The topic that I chose is the boycotting of the busses in Montgomery, Alabama which came into play when Rosa Parks refused to give up her sit for a white man. To find out why she refused to give up her seat, I used the book “The Rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” by Jeanne Theoharis. Though the book was my source of information, the author used different ways to gather he information such as using historian like Douglas Brinkley, old articles or magazine form the time or even the living witnesses. In the book it demonstrates her early age of her being rebellious as a child. Growing up in the south the African American community were always disrespected in that when they were walking down the street a “white” person had the write to verbally abuse them in that they called nigger”. So, in one incident Rosa Parks was
Some of the lawyers who took these cases were usually from the NAACP and one of them was Fred Gary who worked on numerous cases such the Rosa Parks case of refusing to give up her seat and Broder vs Gayle where they were their case went all the way to the supreme court because they wanted the treatment of American on