Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was a major role in american history. She gave people inspiration to stand up for what they believe is right. She showed people even though there may be consequences for standing up for yourself and for what is right‚ the outcome may make a difference. Rosa got on the bus as usual after a long day at work. When the section of seats assigned to the whites filled up the line was moved back and she and 3 others were ask to give up their seats to the whites standing in the aisle
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in attitude”. Sometimes in hard situations or conflict the solution is to just be positive. If it doesn’t solve the conflict it will definitely help it. Examples of people that dealt with conflict with positivity are Anne Frank‚ Miss.Breed‚ and Rosa Parks. To start Anne frank is a person that dealt with the conflict of being a Jew during the holocaust by being positive. Anne was a young jewish girl that had to go into hiding so that she wouldn’t be brought to a concentration camp. She went into
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negative impact on a free society. Majority of peaceful assemblies can give the group of activist their freedom of speech and views towards something they believe in. Famous public figures like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Park’s civil disobedience had a powerful effect on the world. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move her seat for a white men while sitting on a segregated white bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama on December 1st‚ 1955. Similarly‚ Claudette Colvin found herself in the same predicament
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to pay the price of freedom from racial segregation. After he joined the African National Congress‚ he was jailed for 28 years; and still did not lose his dignity or humanity. Then‚ after the 28 years‚ he won the Nobel Peace Prize. He referred of trying to get freedom‚ to a “long walk to freedom”. He also said that a brave man isn’t a man that’s never afraid; it’s a man that could overcome the fear. I think he’s one of my heroes. Even though Rosa Parks passed away in 2005‚ she is still highly
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about what you are doing if it is right.” Rosa Parks helped begin a civil rights movement to end the injustice against African Americans. For African Americans‚ the era before constitutional rights was scary and unfair. They tried to claim their authority as U.S. citizens in a country that refused to grant them freedom. According to CliffsNotes‚ many lived in poverty‚ and were denied the right to earn a reasonable wage. Blacks struggled for justice‚
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Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist known as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Parks had ancestors that were slaves and was very aware of segregation. She earned the name of the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in December of 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man as she was told to do by the bus driver. She did this with the intention of a new movement with better rights for all colored
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Since the earliest of times African Americans have been denied their rights. Finally when having enough of this discrimination they started a movement in 1955 that would soon be called the civil rights movement. This was initially triggered by the death of a young African American boy at the age of fourteen named Emmett Till. All of which would initiate a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality of all people. Starting with Rosa Parks and
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agents the crowd to stand out and make their word be heard. Two people that stand out and express their thoughts not only for themselves but for everyone are Rosa Parks from the Civil rights movement and Morrie Schwartz from the book Tuesdays with morrie. Both of these people have invested time to impact and change people’s lives for the better. Rosa Parks’s was a nonconformist and NAACP activist that made herself known throughout the civil
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Rosa Parks A very inspirational civil rights activist once said‚ “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.” This civil rights activist is sometimes recognized as the "Mother of the U.S. civil rights movement" (Encyclopædia Britannica) . Her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is the most influential women in the last century. Parks was a seamstress‚ secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored
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Thanks to the courage of Rosa Parks‚ just one bus trip changed the future of the whole nation and had a huge impact on the movement in support of civil rights throughout the world. At that time in America‚ and especially in the southern states‚ the so-called laws of Jim Crow‚ adopted after the Civil War‚ were being operated. These acts concerned almost every aspect of the everyday life of the representatives of the colored population and severely restricted their rights: for blacks‚ there were separate
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