What was Rosa Parks challenges in school?

Answer 1

Following the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, black Americans were systematically subject to segregation laws, denial of civil rights, and in many instances they were the victims of violence targeted against them. By the 1950s, Rosa Parks was personally affected by segregation, racism, her childhood sickness ( being diagnosed with dementia ) her parents splitting up, being arrested, memories of her grandfather standing in the doorway with a loaded shotgun as the KKK marched up their street, etc. All of these thing brought black Americans together to organize protests against these conditions.

Answer 2

She was black and intelligent. A lot of people in her time didn't like black people, especially where she lived. And since she was black, even though she was intelligent and well-qualified, she couldn't really get any great jobs. Her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggered a year-long bus boycott, an event that is generally seen as the beginning of a decade-long battle against segregation that mobilized millions and won the support of workers all over the world.

Answer 3

Segregation, racism, her childhood sickness ( being diagnosed with dementia ) her parents splitting up, being arrested, memories of her grandfather standing in the doorway with a loaded shotgun as the KKK marched up their street, ect. ...