Rosa Parks Leader

Rosa has been born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother is call Leona Edwards ans she is teacher, her father is call James McCauley and works like carpenter and builder. She also has a small brother named Sylvester who she was very protective of. She used to be a sickly child and having a lot of tonsillitis. She has been raised in her grandparents' house because her family didn't have enough money to pay a house. (Page 4 to 20) She describe herself like this : " I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black. We were taught to be ambitious and to believe that we could do what we wanted in life." (Page 49) She known that she had a very strong sense

Rosa’s education had a large impact on her view of segregation. At five years old, Rosa began school in a one-room schoolhouse in Pine Level, Alabama (Ashby, 2008). In 1925, Rosa then enrolled at Miss White’s Industrial School for Girls (Ashby, 2008). After the school was burnt down a year earlier by a white mob, Ms. White gave freed black girls the chance of education (Ashby, 2008). Rosa had learned many things from Ms White, but the one that stuck with her was learning about self-respect. As Rosa learns more and more about self-respect and segregation, she becomes more ambitious and vocal about how she is treated and her civil rights (Ashby, 2008).

During a time in which white supremacy was being challenged by an ever-increasing African population, a woman named Margaret Sanger “sought to purify America’s breeding stock and purge America’s bad stains” (Planned Parenthood). She set out to establish the American Birth Control League, which eventually became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Sanger’s actions provoked much controversy because at the time not only was contraception illegal in the United States, but it was denounced by almost every major religious denomination (Contraception History). Margaret Sanger set out on a mission to overcome first the church and then the state in order to “stop bringing to

One cold December day a woman got onto a bus after a long shift at work, exhausted from the day she plopped down in a seat near the front. The next stop many white people boarded and the bus started to get full so they moved back until they reached the woman's seat. This was a problem because this woman, Rosa Parks, was black and had to move or she would end up in jail. Even with that knowledge, she refused to give that seat up. Many blacks faced this problem every day during the Civil Rights Movement, but weren't brave enough to stand up for their rights like Rosa was. After Rosa said "no" many realized they could stand up for their rights as well. Parks helped with people's involvement during these tough times and was involved herself. Due

Rosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. She moved with her parents, James and Leona, to Pine Level, Alabama, at the age 2 to reside with Leona’s parents.Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She left at 16, in 11th grade because she needed to care for her grandmother and, shortly thereafter, her chronically ill mother. ¨In 1932, at 19, she married Raymond Parks, a self-educated man 10 years her senior who worked as a barber and was a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He supported Rosa in her efforts to earn her high-school diploma, which she ultimately did the following year.¨(Newsmakers) even at a young age of 19 she supported african American rights and dedicated her life to education and caring for people but nothing prepared her for what was going to happen next in life.

Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist and is a tragic hero known for her Strength, bravery, wisdom, peace and perseverance taking a major role in the Montgomery bus boycott and standing up against oppression, She and many others stood up for their rights, She refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery Alabama city bus on the day of December 1, 1955 which began the 381 day long Montgomery Bus Boycott which then helped launch the nation wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.

Rosa Louise MaCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father James was a carpenter, her mother Leona was a teacher. She was often sick as a child and had to stay in bed a lot. Her mother and father separated when she was a child, and she moved to her grandparent’s farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mom and little brother Sylvester. When Rosa was eleven in 1924, her mother sent her to live with relatives in Montgomery, Alabama to go to a better school. It was called Industrial School for Girls. It was a school started by white northerners to help black young girls. She learned self-respect and she was excited to live in a big city. She lived during a time when blacks and whites used separate bathrooms, restaurants, pretty

Rosa Parks A civil rights activist named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. Rosa dedicated her whole life to the civil rights and was prodded of being a civil rights activist. Rosa lived in a normal neighborhood full of black people that just wanted to be treated the same as white people. The biggest thing that Rosa did was not giving up her seat on the bus but she also did speeches and nonviolent protesting.

Have you ever notice a person that is or was courages or even brave ? Rosa Parks is the person that I believe that courageous and brave. Rosa Parks is courageous because she tried to make blacks and whites equal because she didn't like being separated by a skin color. “Rosa Parks was born on February 4 , 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama”. For the people that doesn't know she was a Civil Rights Activists.

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

Although, congressional reconstruction included Amendments that abolished slavery, granted citizenship to all people born in United States or naturalized and granted the right to vote to all people no matter race, color or previous conditions of servitude. However, these amendments were ratified. Some people disagree these changes and opposed to give those rights to African american people. As this situation was getting worse, African American took a stand to fight for their rights. By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955, Black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913-2005) helped initiate the civil movement”(History.com). Rosa Parks was one of the first Activist of the civil right movement. She took a stand

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley. Her parents were James and Leona McCauley and she had a younger brother by the name of Sylvester McCauley, whom was born in 1915 right before their parents had separated. At only two years old, Rosa’s parents had separated and her mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her parents. Rosa’s grandparents had both been former slaves. When Rosa was younger, she had experienced racial things. For example, she had saw her grandfather stand outside with a shotgun while the KKK also known as the Ku Klux Klan marched down the street.

Rosa Parks, the woman who sparked the fire of racial and general equality, is a truly inspiring figure in both African American and American history. As a child, Rosa Louise Mcauley was always against segregation. All blacks were, but Rosa seemed especially devoted to it. She was often picked on by white children because of her skin colour and height. She was always rather short and white kids saw that as an opportunity to bully her. But while any other black child would have done nothing or tried to run, Rosa stood up to it. One example from her childhood was when she was found by a kid named Franklin. Franklin, being white, threatened to hit her, but Rosa picked up a brick and dared him to. Rosa was always very protective of herself but

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired,” wrote Rosa Parks on her Biography, “but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically….No, the only tired I was, was giving in,” stated in (History.com.) “Rosa Parks is a civil rights leader in the 1960’s.” (From “Rosa Parks” By Cavendish, Marshall; Academic American Encyclopedia) She was a huge key in history, forwarding the protest for the African Americans rights’.

Imagine yourself sitting on a bus and refusing to give up your seat. You know what the consequences are, but you still refuse because you believe in equal rights. People pushing you to move and go to the back of the bus just because of the color of your skin. That was the type of world we used to live in. Before someone had a dream before someone made a stand. It’s just unpredictable right? Well there were heroes that changed this situation. Not super heroes that can fly, but humans that made a great change in the world. One of these people is named Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is a young woman that fought for what she believed in. On December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks stayed in her seat on the bus when she was told to move to the back. The police arrested