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“I refuse!” Rosa Parks was an African American lady who did not move to the back of the bus. She wanted to be treated like a human being. Rosa Parks, who was 42 years old at the time, wanted to make a difference in blacks. She refused to move to the back of the bus, and then started the Montgomery Bus Boycott with Martin Luther King Jr. Eventually, Rosa was a member of the NAACP and acted as a leader to stop segregation in the South.

Rosa Parks, was a Civil Rights activist who was best known for the incident on the Montgomery bus. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white male who demanded she seat herself in the ‘appropriate colored’ space located at the back of the bus for black men and women. Her defiance to the law that day became known to the world.

“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”(Rosa Parks Quote) From a young age Rosa parks was shown racial discrimination. Her parent, “Rose and Sylvester Edwards—both former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality.” (Rosa Louise McCauley Parks) Being that Rosa Parks was shown such influences in her life from such a young age, is what gave her such courage to take a stand for what she believed in. At the time of the Bus Boycott, in the United States Courts was a case called Brown v. Board of ...

Rosa Parks was an African American who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white men. She was bailed out of jail by president, Edgar Nixon, of the NAACP. After hearing about what occurred to Rosa Parks, the black community formed a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system. “Calling themselves the Montgomery Improvement Association, they chose a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., to lead the struggle f...

“Rosa Louise Parks is nationally recognized as the mother of the modern-day civil rights movement in America” (Reed, 1994). In December 1955, Parks was arrested because she refused to give her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. Parks was involved in decades of political work before the boycott due to her activist husband and her family influence. Throughout her life, she was mistreated several times because of her color. In 1943, she was told she did not pass the literacy test, which was a Jim Crow invention to keep blacks from voting; even though in 1945, she passed the test and became one of the few blacks able to exercise the "right" to vote (Dreier, 2006).The dissident action of Parks was courageous and her performance

Rosa (McCauley) Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James and Leona McCauley. She was homeschooled by her mother, who was a school teacher, until the age of eleven. At eleven, Rosa moved to Montgomery with her aunt, where she started going to a private school. Her childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. After a few years at that school, Rosa transferred to Booker T. Washington High School, but had to drop out to help her ill mother. In 1932 Rosa got married to a man by the name of Raymond Parks and she had a delighted life until he died in 1977. During this time of her life, she worked as a seamstress in a Montgomery clothing store. Leaving work one night is when everything happened (Troy University).

Rosa Parks is a US civil rights activist who served as secretary of the local chapel of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People. She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks was known as “The first lady of Civil Rights” (Teaching with Documents). Rosa also won the NAACP’s highest award. Rosa was experienced with early racial discrimination and activism for racial equality in her early childhood. Rosa grew up with completely segregated places. Blacks couldn’t use the same restrooms; attend the same restaurants or even schools. Black people simply were looked upon as “lower” people. White people were “better” than them and got treated that way. On December 1, 1955, the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man, Alabama’s bus went into a wide spread boycott.

Rosa Parks was a very important woman in history, giving people a voice about racism. Rosa was an African American woman who was told move from the back of the bus and give her seat to a white man. “She was already sitting in the “negro” section located in the back of the bus and refused to relinquish her seat” (Stabler 1). This event causes a major controversy with the 20th century civil rights movement in the 1950-1960s. The 1965 action of Rosa Parks sparked the deceleration from the Supreme ...

During the next twelve years Rosa began gaining great respect in the black community. She continued to be actively involved in the NAACP and continued as a seamstress. The segregation laws during this time were just about "driving Rosa crazy." (Parks 35) Although there were many laws separating blacks and whites, Rosa stood up for what she believed in. She walked up the stairs of a building rather than riding in an elevator marked "blacks only." She would go home thirsty instead of drinking from the "colored only" water fountain. (Guest Rosa Parks 2)

On December l, 1955, Rosa Parks got on the bus because she was feeling tired after a long day at work. She was sitting in the middle of the bus, which she wasn’t allowed to do. After a while a white man got on the bus and told her that her and some other people to get up because the white part of the bus was full. All the Black people except for her moved to the back of the bus but her, she refused to get up. When this happened the white bus driver threatened to call the police unless she gave up her seat, but she said no and "Go ahead and call them". When the police got there, the driver was very mad and then the police asked the driver if he wanted Mrs. Parks to be arrested or let go with a warning, he said he wanted her to be arrested arrest. Many Black had been arrested for this crime but Mrs. Park was well known in her community because she was once a secretary for the president of the NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People). She was allowed to make one phone call. She called a NAACP lawyer, The lawyer got her release through bail. Just because of this one time that a black woman stood up to society she started the civil rights movement, which got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which made sure that “All black Americans must be given equal treatment with whites under the law.” It was an "established rule" in the American south (at that time) that African-American riders had to sit at the back of the bus. African-American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white bus rider if it was needed. (Levenglick, p1) Mrs. Parks had been called as "the mother of the civil rights movement". Since the boycott had been started she was getting threats, which caused her husband to have a nervous breakdown, and in 1957 they both moved to Detroit, where one of Mrs. Parks's brother lived. The bus boycott When people heard that Mrs. Parks had been arrested the Women's Political Council decided to protest her treatment by organizing a boycott of the buses.

Rosa Parks born and raised in Alabama was sitting alone on a Montgomery city bus. The bus driver noticed a white man standing up and asked Parks to move so he could sit down and have her seat forcing her to stand up. When she refused to move he called the police and she was arrested. She didn’t know what would happen, if her friends would look at her differently, how long she would stay in jail, all she knew was ,”It was time for someone to stand up--or in my case, sit down. I refused to move." (Parks, Rosa). She had also said that, “For half of my life there were laws and customs in the South that kept African-Americans segregated from Caucasians and allowed white people to treat black people without any respect. I never thought this was fair, and from the time I was a child, I tried to protest against disrespectful treatment. But it was very hard to do anything about segregation and racism when white people had the power of the law behind them.” (The St. Petersburg Times)

Rosa Parks was born February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother and father separated while she was young. Her mother moved her and her brother to Pine Level so her mother can live with her parents. In 1929 in the 11th grade attending a laboratory school for a secondary education. In 1932 at the age of 19 she married Raymond Parks. In 1933 she got her high school degree. In 9143 she became involved in civil rights issues

ROSA PARKS: I left work on my way home, December 1, 1955, about 6:00 in the afternoon. I boarded the bus downtown Montgomery on Court Square. As the bus proceeded out of town on the third stop, the white passengers had filled the front of the bus. When I got on the bus, the rear was filled with colored passengers, and they were beginning to stand. The seat I occupied was the first of the seats where the Negro passengers take as they — on this route. The driver noted that the front