By Riley Burt Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1‚ 1955 an African American woman named Rosa Parks‚ a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)‚ refused to stand to give up her seat to a white male as the Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ city bus was full and this was the expectation of African American people the buses were segregated and if the bus was full in the ’white’ section African Americans’ were expected to stand and let the white person
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” wrote Parks in her autobiography‚ “but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No‚ the only tired I was‚ was tired of giving in.” Rosa Parks was born February 4‚ 1913 and died October 24‚ 2005‚ She will always be remembered. United States Congress called Rosa the “first lady of civil rights”.Rosa was an excellent leader. She was a very important leader for both men and women. What inspired her was that she knew she could make a change no matter who told her she couldn’t. Rosa Parks was an
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December 1 1955. Dear diary Today is a very special day. I did something brave. Something I never thought‚ I’d have the courage to do. I know that after this‚ my life will never be the same‚ but I’m sure‚ it’s the right thing to do.I was on my way home after yet another long day of hard work. I was so tired when I took the bus although I was happy to finally be on my way home to my dearest husband. After so many hours sitting in a room too small for the number of people‚ I was exhausted. Who wouldn’t
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between you and your rights‚ you have the right to fight back. Without people who have fought to protect their rights‚ our world would look very different. For example‚ Rosa Parks‚ a women’s rights activist in the Civil Rights movement‚ once stated‚ “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa Park refused to surrender her seat on a bus for a white man‚ which in her time was unthinkable. This bus boycott helped launch a nationwide revolution and inspired many after
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From the moment Rosa Parks could speak‚ she had something to say. As she grew older‚ those words that she spoke would catapult the civil rights movement into what it is known as today. Most of the time‚ there are some frustrating misconceptions about who Rosa Parks was. Her history of activism is sometimes blatantly overlooked in the eyes of those who don’t know her whole story. From her work with the NAACP Youth Council‚ voter registration efforts‚ to her attendance of the Highlander Folk School
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Rosa Parks and Civil Disobedience Rosa Parks once said‚ “Whatever my individual desires were to be free‚ I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way” (Google Quotes) This means she was not the only one that wanted to be free. All the other African Americans wanted to be free too; they wished to sit wherever they wanted on the public buses. Rosa Parks involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences‚ She Chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest bus
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On December 1‚ 1955 Rosa Parks’ decided that she was going to sit in the white section on the bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama. African Americans were not permitted to sit in the front of the buses. Her refusal to give up her seat for a white man helped change segregation nationwide. Rosa Parks’ helped give African Americans equal rights in this world today. When Rosa Parks’ was younger‚ she had experience with racial discrimination and racial equality. When her parents separated her mother moved the
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ oral presentation Caused by the Jim Crow laws‚ Montgomery (Alabama) segregated bus passengers by race. The first four rows of seats on each bus were reserved for whites‚ and the conductors could‚ if necessary‚ order black passengers to move further back when there were no available white seats left. Black people could sit in the middle row‚ until the white section was filled up. If white people were already sitting in the front‚ black people had to board
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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‚
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Rosa parks has had a lot of accomplishments in her life. She is once of the African Americans who changed history. Most people when they think of Rosa parks they think of how she changed racial segregation. she changed it by not giving her seat up to a white man on a bus. Rosa is most known for the time she would not give up her seat to a white man on the buss. When Rosa was little she had it hard. She had a job as a seamstress but also a activist. A activist is a person who campaigns for some
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