Did Rosa Parks face any personal challenges during her life?

Answer 1

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a 40 year old black seamstress, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. That was a no no at the time when segregation was the deed of the day. This triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ended bus segregation which enraged the white power movement at the time.

As a matter of fact, back those, when Rosa Parks fought for her rights, all the black community shared the same obstacle. Don't forget she became a hero. After Rosa Parks was taken to jail and fingerprinted she was allowed one phone call, which she made to her Reverend, E.B Nixon. He was the president of the NAACP in Montgomery, Alabama. Nixon called the Washington D.C. NAACP, who decided that they needed to "move on it today. " The next calls were to Reverend A. Philip Randolph and Reverend Martin L. King. From there, they decided they were going to hold an eight o'clock meeting at the local Baptist church in Montgomery. That night, they agreed that they were going to start the protest on December 5, the day of Rosa Parks' trial. The next day, flyers were passed out to every black elementary, junior high, and high school in Montgomery, that announced a protest to be held December 5 in front of the court house. There were also signs posted on every bus stop, that read, "Don't ride the bus today, don't ride it for freedom." This was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which effected U.S. history and specifically rights for blacks, forever.

Rosa was a very beautiful woman. When she was fourteen in 1959, her family traveled cross-country from her home in Ohio. We stopped in Dallas and while there her family went ate lunch and went shopping in a downtown Woolworth's. After lunch when her father indicated he wanted to show her something. He took her downstairs to the basement part of the store and with no comment pointed out what seemed to be a duplicate lunch counter to the one upstairs. The only difference I could see was that the customers were all black or "Negro," those were the obstacles she faced.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks was a black woman living in the Jim Crow south of the US. Of course she faced personal challenges, nearly every day.

Her most widely known challenge came with the consequences of her decision not to give up her seat on the bus to a white man who wanted it, and who had the right to demand it under the then existing laws.