How Rosa Parks Changed The World

When I think about someone who has been a success in their career or someone who helped change the world, I think of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Growing up in a time of racial inequality she became very aware of the racial discrimination among African Americans and White people. After her parents divorced, her mom moved the family to Pine Level Alabama to live with their grandparents, both former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality. According to the biography website Rosa Parks stated that her grandfather once stood in front of their house with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street. While in Pine Level she was taught to read by her mom and later attended a one-room segregated school that did not have necessary school supplies, such as desks and books. African-American students were not allowed to ride the bus provided by the city of Pine Level or attend the new school built because it was strictly for white students only. African Americans including Rosa Parks often walked to the elementary school everyday. She would continue her education in Montgomery studying at a laboratory

It was her brave and courageous act that changed America and changed the course of history.

President Barack Obama revealed a statue honoring Rosa Parks in the nation's capital. Obama honored her by stating "In a single moment, with the simplest of gestures, she helped change America and change the world. . . . And today, she takes her rightful place among those who shaped this nation’s course." Rosa Parks will be an inspiration and reminder to all the pain and suffering African Americans endured to gain civil rights. She will be remembered as a courageous black person of unquestionable honesty and integrity that changed the world