How Did Rosa Parks Contribute To The Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights activists Rosa Parks was born, Rosa McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her maternal grandparents, Rose and Sylvester Edwards, were former slaves. Her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher, and her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter, bricklayer, and stone man. Rosa was the first of two children. Rosa’s parents had different reasons for wanting to live in Tuskegee. Rosa’s mother knew Tuskegee was the best place in Alabama for African Americans to get an education. Rosa’s mother believed in freedom and equality. She thought that since the Emancipation Proclamation, stated by Abraham Lincoln, was passed, there would be no reason to treat African Americans in the manner that they were being treated. Rosa looked up to her mother and absorbed the values she exemplified as her own and this is the root of it all. Rosa did and stood for it all in her life. In Montgomery, where Parks grew up, there were legal enforced segregation laws. Rosa struggled against them for a long time and her chance to rebel finally came when a bus driver told her
With her mother’s passion for equality, Rosa was one of the few African Americans that stood up for what was right. Parks knew that when she refused to stand up on that bus, she was refusing to follow all the segregation laws. Parks used her new influence to later in life establish the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. She wanted to guide our country’s youth so they can find God and prevent further discrimination from happening. The programs teach children about civil rights movement and why it was so important, and hopefully inspire them to, in the future, stand up for what they believe is genuinely right. Rosa was very good at teaching the most important thing of all: awareness. She saw that our future is the children so her program teaches them about truth and equality early in