...Head: ROSA PARKS Rosa Parks Kaplan University CM107-12: Effective Writing I for Arts & Sciences Majors Instructor: Nick Pincumbe October 11, 2011 Courage is summoned up from deep within our inner being. It is morals, beliefs and strength. It can involve fear, danger and uncertainty. It is doing what’s right, at all cost, even when no one is looking. Courage is displayed through both adversity and triumph. It prevails through life’s journey when you face challenge and conflict with strength and tenacity. It is stronger than fear and outlives timidity. It picks you up and gives you the strength to persevere as did Rosa Louise Parks, an African-American civil rights activist, who became known as "the first lady of civil rights" and a national icon of civil rights and African-American pride. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites, Parks refused to follow a command given by the bus driver, James Blake, who ordered her to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. The bus driver called police, and Rosa Parks was arrested and fined. Although Parks' action was not the first of its kind to impact the civil rights issue, her civil disobedience had the effect of sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., which caused a national sensation. The boycott was successful and led to desegregation in Montgomery and elsewhere in the United States. Parks' act...
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...Rosa Parks and segregation In the sixties there was a lot of segregation in America. A lot of people fought against that, one of them was Rosa Parks. In America the black and whites, there was bus seats for blacks and bus seats for white, they were separated in everything, schools, water fountains for blacks and whites and so on. Rosa Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. This action off civil disobedience started Montgomery bus boycott, whitch is one of the largest movements against racial segregation. Another time she was told to go out of the bus to enter the backdoor, because blacks couldn’t enter the front doors in the busses. The time when she didn’t wanted to give up her seat she was arrested. The bus was split in two, the back seats was for blacks, but if a white guy was standing the black had to give up his seat. Rosa was not young at the time, so when the bus driver said that she had to give up her seat she refused and the bus driver called the police and she got arrested the 1st 1955. Rosa Parks once said about the segregation and the arrest. “I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had...
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...!1 Yijie Su Professor J.Austin History 22 December 24, 2015 Rosa Parks Timeline 1913- Born on the 4th of February, in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1919 –attends Pine level school. 1924 –attends Miss White’s School. 1928 –attends Booker T. High School. 1929 –attends Alabama State Teachers Negro College. 1943 –refuses to give seat to white supremacist. 1949 –works with NAACP as a secretary. 1977 –husband dies. 1992 –publishes book about her story. 1996 –receives freedom medal from Bill Clinton. 1999 -receives highest civilian honor. 2003 –diagnosed with dementia. 2005 –dies on October 4th On a frosty December night in 1955, Rosa Parks unobtrusively started an upheaval and the most famous revolution in the United States by simply taking a seat. She felt exhausted after working all day. She was a retail chain worker in the South. She entered a bus that was to take her home and took a fifth column seat. The first line in the fifth column was dedicated to the Colored people. In Montgomery, Alabama, when a vehicle turned out !2 to be full, the seats closer to the front (near the driver) were dedicated to the white travelers.1 The driver asked Rosa and three other black Americans near her to relocate to the back seats in order to give way to white travelers. After Parks had declined to move, she was put to detention and given a fine of 10 dollars. After her detention, the events that took place changed America significantly. In1955, Martin Luther King was the...
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...Rosa Parks Definition of the word: Free “enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery” This was said to be the definition of what the United States of America stood for, but throughout History, our country has proven to not be as free as what the Constitution stated we would be. Slavery was abolished in December 1865, a small step that would later result into still many years of abuse, prejudice, and injustice towards African-Americans. When would the oppression that befell black Americans finally end? When would they have equal rights like everyone else? On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks rose up against the injustice being displayed. Through her voice and actions she gave evidence to bravery and strength for all the years of persecution that engulfed her and her people. And in doing so, she helped cultivate America as we see it today. On February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise Parks was born. She was of African-American, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish ancestry. At age eleven, she attended the school of Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and later attended the Alabama State College, having to drop out to care for her grandmother and later her mother, who both fell ill. Between1876 and1965, the Jim Crow Laws were put into practice stating that all public facilities in southern states were to be segregated...
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...Rosa Parks And The Segregation Rosa Park’s action started the biggest anti-segregation movement in US. A Michigan museum recently paid $492,000 for an old, dilapidated bus from Montgomery, Alabama. The old bus was reported to be the same one that Rosa Parks sat on and which action sparked the civil rights movement in the America. She refused to give her seating place to a white man. In the 60’s in the United States, white people had the priority in buses for seats over black people. Everything was segregated at this time: schools, churches, restaurants, bars … It was the period of the an important differentiation between black people and white people. In refusing to surrender her seat to a white man, Rosa inspired a courageous freedom movement that lives on, even today. It took incredible courage for an African American woman to make such a bold stance in 1955 Alabama. This act took place in an era when African Americans could be arrested and face severe retribution for committing the most trivial acts of defiance. White people were racist with black people as they did what they could to make them go to jail or show them the white men’s superiority. Colored people could not have important jobs in the country like being a judge or a governor. Since the Civil War, many people thought black people still as slaves and inferior people only because of their skin color. This state of mind was transmitted from generation to another and it still remains, but latter...
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...Rosa Parks Rosa Parks, was born in 1913, and died in 2005. An African American civil rights activist whom is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Her action helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was arrested for violating a city law that required the whites and blacks to sit in separate rows on buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the bus when a white man desired to sit in her row. The front rows were for whites only. The law required blacks to leave their seats in the next rows when all seats in the front rows were taken and other whites still wanted seats. Even before Rosa Parks’ arrest, Montgomery’s black leaders had been discussing a protest against racial segregation on the city’s buses. Rosa Parks allowed the leaders to use her arrest to trigger a boycott of the bus system. The leaders formed an organization to run the boycott. Martin Luther King Jr.-then a Baptist minister in Montgomery-was chosen as president. For 382 days, from December 5, 1995 to December 20, 1956 thousands of blacks refused to ride Montgomery’s buses. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and she attended the Alabama State Teacher’s College and in 1943, she was one of the first women to join the NAACP, she was the secretary from 1943 to 1956, then she lost her job as a seamstress. Before she went to jail in 1957, she moved to Detroit and got married to a barber named Raymond just a few...
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...By refusing to give up her seat on the bus, Rosa Parks will change African American history forever. Rosa Parks was born in Montgomery Alabama. She became involved with the NAACP and was the secretary of the Montgomery branch and it's youth council advisor. Parks was a seamstress and lost her job after not giving up her seat. She later moved to Detroit, Michigan to continue her civil rights work. On a cold Thursday afternoon, Rosa Parks was coming home from a long day at work and decided to take the bus. She got on the bus, paid her fare, and sat down in a seat towards the back of the bus. A white passenger boarded the bus, and Parks was asked to give up her seat. She refused and remained in her seat calmly while the driver and white passenger...
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...Rosa Parks: Giver of Equality "Memories of our lives, of our works and deeds will continue in others." The woman who created this inspirational quote was none other than the astounding Rosa Parks. She is stereotypically remembered as a black lady who refused to give up her seat on a racist bus. This statement is only part of what Rosa accomplished; there is much more depth to her story than the common person is exposed to. Her achievements continue to impact the world today, decades after her story occurred. Rosa Parks was a powerful figure who benefitted society by engaging people in the actions of the Civil Rights Movement, inspiring others to stand up for what they believe in, and providing a positive example for women of color to follow....
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...You may mistake Rosa Parks for just your ordinary African American women but she is more than that. Just because she refused to move on a bus she had to be arrested just because she stood up for her rights. She stands up for her rights and doesn’t let anyone mistreat her just because of the color of her skin. When Rosa was born she was very small and had a large family. She was born on February 4th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and named after her maternal grandmother. Her large family consisted of her mother, Leona Edwards her father, James McCauley, and her younger brother Sylvester her two uncles Robert McCauley and George. Finally her grandparents Leona and Sylvester Edwards. Rosa was raised in her grandparents house for most of her childhood. She was very small and delicate for her age and...
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...Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a farm with her parental grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. They all were members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a century-old independent black religious group founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early nineteenth century. Rosa attended a rural school until she was eleven. Parks recalled going to elementary school in Pine Level, where school buses took white students to their new school and black students had to walk to theirs. Repeatedly bullied...
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...This story is about Rosa Parks and how she helped stop segregation. Just Imagine if you were arrested just for sitting at the front of the bus? What would you do? Rosa Parks took a stand to something she felt was wrong. Rosa Parks showed braveness by sitting at the front of the bus when she was just tired. She also led by example by demonstrating that blacks could sit at the front of the bus where whites sat. Then she also showed determination by trying to help stop segregation. Rosa Parks’ braveness was outstanding, but some people could say but she was just tired so she just took a seat. Rosa Parks is famous because of her braveness, Rosa just got off from her job she was tired and she just wanted to go home. So she got on the bus and took...
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...This world is full of people who harm or do wrong things, but where are the hero’s? Where are the people who shape the world we live in? Rosa Parks is one of these people. She has sparked and created many ideas through the nation that give hope to people. She is a hero because she is brave, strong, and helpful. Rosa Parks was one of the bravest people at the time. She was one of the bravest people at the time. She was brave to do what was right. Back then if a black person wanted to ride the bus he/she had to st in the back or give up their seat in the front for a white person. Rosa decided to not give up her seat when the police officer asked. She was threatened to go to jail but she stayed. She went to jail because of this. The fact that...
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...“ As far as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin”-Rosa Parks. When the color of your skin was all that mattered you were treated differently. My hero was born an African- American. African-Americans were treated worse than white people. Rosa was tired of being treated this way. But not just her but also the other African- Americans. Without Rosa we would probably still be treated differently. How did she have great leadership and how did she stand up for what was right? My hero helped everyone have equality, having amazing leadership and for standing up to people for many reasons. Furthermore, Rosa Parks’s leadership led to a boycott in 1955,...
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...Rosa parks is a significant activist as she took a stand for racial equality. She quoted “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free”. That's why she took a stand because she was tired of being pushed around. Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying Alabama laws as she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Parks sat at the front of the colored section and as more white passengers boarded the bus they were standing. The bus driver demanded that Rosa Parks and three others give up their seat to a white man, the 3 others moved but Rosa Parks refused to. The bus driver threatened to call the police, Rosa stated “call the police” so the police and they came to arrest her. ( photo...
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...Rosa Parks Rosa Parks has been a tremendous influence to people across the nation and even at a global level. She took a stand against segregation and racism merely by refraining from the laws of segregation on the public transportation system. Rosa Parks encouraged many African Americans to join the Civil Rights Movement through her demonstration of peaceful protest. A commemorative stamp would truly honor how much she has contributed to desegregation and equality of all people. She deserves this tribute due to her integrity, strong will, and her drive to make her dream a reality. Beginning in 1955, Rosa Parks was made significant contributions to the Civil Rights Movement continually until her death in 2005. Her actions and outward defiance...
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