Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks

Childhood: At a young age Rosa parks learned how to read by her mother. Her childhood brought her early racial discrimination. She goes to a school in Pine level in Alabama there was only one room. They don’t have many school supplies they don’t even have desks. Also the African American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation.
Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations. Rosa parks is a civil right activist and she isn’t going to give her seat to a white person on a segregated Montgomery on a Alabama bus. She joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP she is the chapter secretary. Rosa worked closely with chapter president. Sensed she refused to give up her seat it helped the colored by launching the nationwide
efforts to end segregation. The Montgomery don’t have a choice but to lift the laws by requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received the NAACP the highest award.
Rosa Parks arrest was on December 1, 1955 from an exhausting day at work at the Montgomery department store where Rosa is a seamstress.
She got on the Cleveland Avenue bus to go home. She sit’s down in the first row that’s where colored people could sit. On the bus the drivers are required to separate them it was accomplish by a line in the middle that separated them. The bus driver noticed that there was a lot of white people standing so he pulled over and moved the sign separating them. But that would make four African American’s to give up their seat for whites. If the black protested the driver can refuse service and can have them kicked off the bus by police. The city ordnance don’t give the bus driver the authority to make a passenger get up and give there seat to someone else regardless there color. Three of them got up and moved but Rosa stayed there and didn’t move. The driver said ‘’why don’t you stand up?’’ then Rosa says I don’t think I should have to stand up. So the driver called the police and had Rosa arrested right there. They charged her with violence chapter 6 and section 11 of the Montgomery City
Code.
Life after getting arrested: She suffers hardship in the months after her arrest in the Montgomery and the subsequent boycott. Rosa Parks lost her job at the department store also her husband got fired sense he doesn’t talk to his boss about his wife or their legal case. Sense they are unable to find jobs at Montgomery they left then moved to Detroit Michigan. Once they left she had a new life and she is working as a secretary and receptionist in the U.S. Representative in John Conyers’s congressional office. In 1987 Rosa and her friend found the Raymond Parks Institutes for Self Development. It runs the pathways to freedom it introduces young people to the important civil rights and the Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.