Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
“On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution by just sitting down” (Rosa Parks). Rosa Parks was 42 years old when she decided she was done putting up with what people told her to do. She suffered being arrested for fighting for what she wanted. Rosa Park’s obstinacy and the Bus Boycott were some acts that affected the Civil Rights Movement. Other effects of the Civil Rights Movement were the way African American were treated and how it changed America as a whole.
During this time period, Rosa Parks was known as “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”. Rosa Parks died on October 25, 2005 at age 92. Rosa parks felt that everyone should be free and everyone should have the same rights. Rosa Parks was able to read when she was little because she was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. Her mother taught her to read when she was very little because she was a teacher (Interview with Rosa Parks). The school she went to was very strict about the way things were done. For example:
“The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages. From 5 or 6 years old to in their teens. We went to school five months out of the year. The rest of the time young people would be available to work on the farm. The parents had to buy whatever the student used. Often, if your family couldn't afford it, you had no access to books, pencils, whatever. However, often the children would share” (Interview with Parks).
Rosa Parks first went to the Industrial School for girls when she was little, then went to Alabama State Teachers Colleg...

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... black people, but laws say everyone is to be treated equal. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a main point in the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Boycott changed the way people are today. The before and after life of African Americans and even whites, is a huge difference.

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