Rosa Parks

On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks was faced with the decision to give up her sit to a white man. When she refused, she was arrested and fined. The incident with Rosa led the bus boycott to began, where Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of blacks to boycott the buses and walk to work. Eventually, Rosa Parks became a legion in civil rights and African American history. She also was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1996.Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913. Her mother was a school teacher and her father was a farmer. In her childhood she worked as a field as well as taking care of her younger brother and cleaning her school for tuition. She attended a private by the name of Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. It was an integrated school that was known for producing social activist, including Rosa. As an adult she as a seamstress, service clerk and was the secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama, NAACP chapter. She married Raymond Parks in 1932, and they remained married until he died in 1977. She died on October 24, 2005 from natural causes.

Rosa Parks ties in with chapter 4 because of the way she decided to take care of a problem. She had been a strong believer in civil right and wanted to make a change. By her refusing to give up her seat she was taking a social action movement and so was the boycott. They were both aimed to relive suffering in some way.

Rosa parks was not the only or the first person to refuse to give up her sit and be arrested. Actually, earlier that week someone was arrested for the same offense. The reason Rosa Parks situation was so unique was that she already was known in the African -American community for her work with the NAACP. This doesn't mean that she was looking for spotlight. Some actually say that she wasn't trying to make a stand she was just tired after a long day at work.

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Rosa Parks change the world because she wanted a better life for people in general. One thing I greatly appreciate is that she didn't only have African-American s in mind she also was thinking about bettering the Caucasian people's lives also. She wanted a peaceful world and a place that she could call home. By Rosa refusing to give up her seat she changed the lives of African Americans and changed American history forever. She was tired of the treatment she and other African Americans