Rosa Parks

It wasn't really planned, Rosa Parks was just demonstrating.

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.

It was a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama (not Memphis) bus system after Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955. The incident touched off a year long boycott of the bus system by the Black citizens of Montgomery. This created a lot of hardship for them because many of them had no cars and their only means of getting to work, school, and shopping was by bus. In December 1956 the Supreme Court declared Alabama's bus segregation laws unconstitutional.

He helped the civil rights making sure that whites Americans were treated equally to everyone else, and to shed some darkness on the racism that has been ignored for so long.

However he was more active than passive with his ideas, unlike Martin Luther King Jr. he believed that actions spoke louder than words.

In 2004, Rosa was diagnosed with progressive dementia and died the following year on October 24, 2005. Three days after Rosa's death, all of the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor, and remained this way until Rosa was put into her final resting place. The journey to the cemetery was a long one, one that recapped everything she stood for and believed in her whole life.

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Rosa Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. It is the highest award presented by the US Legislature but is not related to and should never be confused with the Medal of Honor which is awarded for military valor.

Violent racial confrontations between blacks and whites in Montgomery

At that time, there were a lot of discrimination. They were supported by the Jim Crow law.

She is respected because when she was on a bus a white man told her to move (Back then when whites told blacks to move they had to) but she said no so she was arrested. Because she did that they started boy cots which are pretty muching saying not to do whatever but in this case it was not to go on the bus ( For African Americans) and that's when they allowed africans to sit where ever in the bus. That is why Rosa parks is respected.

She is respected because when she was on a bus a white man told her to move (Back then when whites told blacks to move they had to) but she said no so she was arrested. Because she did that they started boy cots which are pretty muching saying not to do whatever but in this case it was not to go on the bus ( For African Americans) and that's when they allowed africans to sit where ever in the bus. That is why Rosa parks is respected.

They meet in the bus

Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, AL; died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, MI; daughter of James (a carpenter) and Leona (a teacher) McCauley; married Raymond Parks (a barber, died 1977), 1932

As you know she dropped out in 1929 to take care of her sick grandmother, who died that same year, and the time she droped out was on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery Alabama.

The conflict was Rosa Parks, a black woman,an African American, not giving up her seat to a white man on a public bus. Racism was still a big factor in the South (especially Montgomery, Ala.).

The compromise came later after Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and members of the NAACP fought to change laws, for the rights of all blacks to have the same rights as the white people.

Because she didnt flinch when the bus driver said he was goin to call the police , cause she would give up her seat to a white man that didnt mind standing. But she was siting in the right spot on the bus during segregation.

Rosa Parks was born on 1913.She died in 2005 she died when she was 92 years old.One day she was in a bus and she demanded to sit in the front of the bus. In 1932 Rosa Parks married a guy.

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first of all, not just the mom, the grandmother too.

First the grandmother got sick and Rosa parks had to drop out of Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes to care for her grandmother and then her mother.

look Rosa parks on wikipedia for more.

Her last name before she married raymond was MCcauley.

yes she would she brave and could fight hard until the end.

a vote for Rosa is a vote for freedom!

She was home schooled until she was 11.then she was enrolled in Montgomery school for girls.

Maybe, no one sure yet, too bad we not go to the past.

no but she was arrested by the police and threatened to be jailed for life if she didnt stop what she was doing!

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