♛ Rosa Parks ⤸┆ʲᵃⁿ. ²³ ˊ- ✄ about ˊ- Mrs. Rosa Parks was African American who was a leader in the Civil Right Movement, teacher, author, political activist, and national treasure. She lived during the time that the United States of America had laws for segregation, discrimination, and during a time when people of color were not treated equally under the law. The segregation laws stated that people of color had be sit in the back of the bus and if all of the seats in the bus were taken the person of color had to give up their seat to a Caucasian person. Mrs. Parks paid the same amount of money to ride the bus as the Caucasian people, but she was not supposed to keep the seat that she paid for if a Caucasian person didn't have a seat. Mrs. Parks was seated in the back section of the bus that is labeled “Colored” when a Caucasian man told her to get up and give him her seat. She did not get up. The Caucasian bus driver told her to get up and she did not. The bus driver called the police and Mrs. Parks was arrested and taken to jail for breaking the bus segregation laws. A bus driver in 1955 asked Mrs. Rosa Parks to give up the seat that she was sitting in on the bus to a Caucasian man and she rejected, so she was arrested. One difficulty she dealt with was that she was arrested when she didn’t give up her seat on the bus, but she kept fighting for equal rights all the rest of her life. Another hardship she faced was that during the 1950s if a person of color did not obey the discrimination/segregation laws they might be physically harmed. One of the most important tools that Mrs. Rosa Parks used was her voice, when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Mrs. Parks completed high school and attended the Alabama State Teachers' College for Negroes. She left college before graduating because her Grandmother died, and her Mother was ill. Mrs. Rosa Parks was an African American woman, who in 1932 married Mr. Raymond Parks, and together they worked hard to end segregations and the discrimination laws. Mrs. Parks actions of not giving up her seat broke the segregation and the discrimination laws and started a boycott of the Montgomery Bus System in Montgomery, Alabama, that lasted for 381 days. Boycott means that people of all races stop riding the buses and the bus company did not make any money. This is an example of non-violent protest. The boycott ended when the laws for segregation and the discrimination on buses in the United States of America for bus that travel only within each state were changed because of a Supreme Court ruling in 1956. That ruling of law change state that, “segregation on public buses is illegal”. Mrs. Rosa Parks wrote an autobiography taught African Americans children their history and strengths. She also worked to help people who were in prisons and she was involvement in making the community cleaner by recycling. Mrs. Parks worked with and for the NAACP or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Civil Rights organized. She also worked closely with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Presidential Medal of Freedom was given to Mrs. Rosa Parks by President Bill Clinton on, September 15, 1996 and this is the highest honor to be given by the United States of America’s executive branch. if you read this far, thank you. also this was for a school project, i just copied and pasted.
