Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks met Martin Luther King Jr during August of 1955.

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Rosa Parks' simple act of defiance of the segregation laws that ruled the lives of black Americans and limited black Americans access to public services and accommodations set off a series of protest movements that brought these inequities to the attention of all Americans and eventually succeeded in overturning laws of discrimination.

On December 1, 1955, a normal day on her way home from work as a seamstress at a department store in downtown Montgomery Alabama, Rosa sat in the section of the bus which was designated by a sign as the seats for 'colored'. Eventually, all of the seats in the designated section for white passengers filled up and some white people were standing. The bus driver moved the sign back a few rows and told the seated black passengers to move back in the bus. Three of the black passengers in Rosa's row stood up, but Rosa did not; she refused. She had refused to comply with the segregation rules on the bus before and the driver had put her off the bus but this time the driver got a policeman and had her arrested.

Rosa and her husband Raymond had both been members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for many years and knew that the time had come to defy these segregation laws. The day after her arrest, representatives of that organization bailed her out of jail and the organization decided that her arrest was the example that they needed to publicize the need to overturn these laws. They organized the Montgomery bus boycott which encouraged all black citizens to stop using the city buses. The boycott was very effective because 75% of Montgomery's bus riders were black. Their efforts resulted in the Alabama supreme court overturning the bus segregation laws, which in turn empowered other groups in many places to stage formal protests against all segregation laws and eventually led to a national civil rights act to protect the rights of all Americans.

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.

Raymond Parks

No, Rosa Parks did not have a sister. She only had one brother, Sylvester McCauley.

As you all know, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested. But the way she stood up to the bus driver, the passenger, and the cops, it impacted society. It impacted history! Back then African Americans would never utter such words and actions torward a white person. I, myself am white and I'm very insterested in African American culture and history. Now back to Rosa Parks. When African Americans heard about Rosa's arrest and how she stood up to everybody, they were shocked. They thought, if Rosa can stand up and make a change, so can I.

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Rosa Parks didn't have any children.

No, she died in 2005 and is still remembered every year on December 1st because of her saying no to the white man to sit in her bus spot and giving freedom to everyone in this wonderful world we have called united states of America.

Rosa Parks sat in the colored section of the bus to ride home from work. When the section reserved for whites was filled, the driver moved the sign for black seating past the row where Rosa was sitting and told her she had to get up, she said no.

In the past, when Rosa had refused to comply with the segregation rules on the bus, she was put off the bus. But this time she was arrested. She has been best known for what happened that day.

I'm unsure about Rosa Parks, but at that time most blacks were Republicans (including MLK, Jr.). It was the Democrats who were in favor of segregation and against Civil Rights (as well as founded the KKK), and the Republicans who fought for Civil Rights and started the NAACP. Here's more history of the Republican and Democratic Parties that I posted in the related links below.

No she didn't attend college. Black women were unable to attend college in her time. She graduated high school in 1934 and worked as a housekeeper.

Rosa Parks was arrested on the bus when she was 42 when she wouldn't give up her front row seat to a "white" man, which seems pretty ridiculous that she was arrested because she sat in a front row seat the laws were extremely ignorant and unnecessary back then.

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she mostly would wear pearls and clip on ear rings

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Mrs. Rosa Parks's only mistake was bring arrested. However it didn't really serve as a mistake

During that time whites where allowed in the front, and blacks in the back. If more whites came on then the blacks had to move back. Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when asked by the bus driver. After this a bus boycott came about, lasting for about a year. a boycott is when you refuse to do something. All blacks refused to ride buses until they were allowed the same privilege as whites. After this she became a leader for the Civil Rights Movement

No Rose Parks was not legally blind or legally deaf.

she was treated like a seconed class sitersen

The montgemery bus boycot would have not happend.

It was the racial discrimination that Rosa Parks had had enough of. She is famous for refusing to abide by the discriminatory rules of the time.

Rosa Parks was influenced by many. Her parents taught her that all people are the same. Her grandparents, former slaves, taught her that all people should be free. Her membership in the NAACP was also influential for Rosa Park.

As a child, walking to school while watching the buses drive the white students to school also influenced Rosa Parks. She influenced Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosa Parks height was 5'2.

He was a white selfish man who couldnt see that a young black woman has to work her butt off just to get by when all of a sudden a man wants to sit where a tired young lady is siting i dont think so