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Rosa Parks Research Paper

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Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in other words, (NAACP) she was a secretary there until 1956. Rosa Parks helped initiate the nationwide attempts to stop segregation of public places. She lost her job and her husband did because of her legal case. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the day December 1, 1955, and she got arrested for doing what really mattered to her.
Rosa Parks was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and was a secretary there until 1956. Rosa Parks was known as “the mother of the civil rights movement,” she made the people in the (NAACP) start the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was on the bus and what really happened was she wasn’t physically tired she was mentally tired with the way white people were treating her in …show more content…

Rosa Parks did this by staying in her seat when they told her to give up the seat and move to the back of the bus. This started the whole Montgomery Bus Boycott and flamed the U.S. civil rights movement. Then people started protesting more to stop segregation of public places. Rosa Parks made people fight more for what really mattered to them and where they wanted to sit and go in.
She lost her job and her husband did because of her legal case. Her husband couldn’t talk about Mrs. Park’s legal case and he did so as a result he was fired. The reason why Park’s legal case was such a big deal was because white bus drivers lost a lot of money, and it made white people very angry and filled with hatred. Rosa Parks and her husband suffered a lot because she was a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement and whites hated what she did. They mistreated her because of that and she left and had a better life as a secretary and receptionist for the (NAACP) and the Planned Parenthood Federation of

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