Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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On December 1st, 1955, something extraordinary happened. An African American seamstress known as Rosa Parks preformed a bold action when she chose not to abandon her seat on the bus to a white man who needed it. In modern times, this wouldn’t be such a big deal. However, back in the 1900s, when there was an immense amount of racial segregation, it was a huge deal. Any African American who disobeyed a white could be severely punished. Sometimes the blacks were killed by the whites. Once again, it wasn’t as big of a deal back then. None of the whites ever believed it was a concern, and they never considered themselves murderers. After being told to move, and refusing, Parks got arrested and fined ten dollars (American Woman’s History). Her actions elicited a chain of events in the Civil Rights Movement, counting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks was born on February 14, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley. In 1932, at age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). With Raymond's guidance, Rosa received her high school

33. Parks became an African American civil rights activist. Her refusal to give up her seat to the white man was one of the main sparks of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1943, Parks became a member of the NAACP with her husband. Parks became known as the mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa and her husband lost their jobs for participating in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and they ended up moving to Detroit, Michigan, taking Rosa’s mother with them. In Michigan, Parks came to be a member of the staff of Michigan Congress man John Conyers Jr. (American Women’s History).
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...without these happenings, things would be much different than they are today.

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