Why is Rosa parks important in black history?

Answer 1

Rosa Parks is important because she inspired the Birmingham Bus Boycott which lead to integrated buses in one of the most segregated cities in America.

Every American should know the story of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a special influence on a large number of people at a critical time and place in American history. Her great claim to fame is that she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955. For this refusal, she was arrested.

She was not the first person to be arrested for this crime, but at the time she was working as a volunteer for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), so she was personally familiar to all of the civil rights leaders in her community. Because of her age, martial status and other demographic factors, they recognized her as the perfect symbol around which the people could rally. She was not chosen to be such a symbol before she committed her act of defiance. Her decision to break this immoral law was a spontaneous one. The boycott which followed was very carefully planned.

Rosa Parks lived in Birmingham, Alabama. At the time, this also happened to be the home of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the boycott that followed the arrest of Rosa Parks. It lasted for over a year. African American citizens refused to ride the buses of Birmingham until they were allowed to sit in the front. The bus companies needed the revenue from the African American community, but they stubbornly refused to give in for over a year!

African Americans with cars volunteered to help transport each other around the city until the boycott was lifted by order of the US District Court. It was an enormously important event.

Rosa Parks joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943 and devoted her life to the cause of American civil rights and equality, until her death in 2005 at age 92.

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Answer 2

My limited knowledge on the matter (others can correct or improve) is as follows:

Rosa Parks was riding on a bus (in the US), during the time of segregation. She found a seat closer to the front of the bus and sat down, but during those times Black people were not allowed to ride at the front of the bus, and Rosa Parks (being a black person) was asked to move to the back of the bus. She refused, and this sparked a movement for equal rights between Whites and Blacks, and for the beginning to the end of segregation.

Also Rosa Parks accomplished to make all the african-american people not ride the bus for a full year and then finally the law had changed.

Answer 3

Rosa Parks helped the Civil Rights by beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Parks' act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement. Through her role in sparking the boycott, Parks played an important part in internationalizing the awareness of the plight of African Americans and the civil rights struggle.

Answer 4

Because she stood up for what she belived in no matter what anyone said and now today we don't have segregation on buses

Answer 5

She was important to black history because she refused to give up her her seatf or a white man.

Answer 6

because she was montgomery bus boycott