How Did Rosa Parks Contribute To Women's Rights
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Alabama and died on October 24, 2005. Her parents were She only attended segregated schools but then dropped out in 11th grade, due to her needing to help her dying grandmother and mother. She then worked and didn’t go back to getting a good education. until she was 19 when her husband told her she should. When she was young, she saw the Ku Klux Klan terrorize some part of their neighborhood, this is when she first saw in her eyes the unfairness. Rosa Parks was connected to the NAACP through her husband. After she was an adult she realized how unfair it was to have African-Americans to go to different schools than white people. She then was very involved with the NAACP and hated the Jim Crow Laws even
…show more content…
Her stance and what she did not do that day made most African-Americans boycott the bus system for more than a year. She did not get up for a white man to sit in her seat when he demanded to. She was getting yelled at by everyone and still refused. She then was arrested for Civil Disobedience. This was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. One of her biggest award she ever got was the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the NAACP, this was the greatest award the NAACP gave and she was also part of it. She was also in many Hall’s of Fame and President Bill Clinton gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She appeared in many magazines, books, she even wrote an autobiography, and won countless medals. She has helped achieve justice, fairness, and equality in not just African-Americans but everyone. She is truly an inspiration to everyone. She was very brave and had a very strong personality. Her lasting legacy is that she started the Civil Rights Movement and that helped bring equality to all people in America like the constitution promised everyone. That would mean no more “separate but equal” and no more
Her stance and what she did not do that day made most African-Americans boycott the bus system for more than a year. She did not get up for a white man to sit in her seat when he demanded to. She was getting yelled at by everyone and still refused. She then was arrested for Civil Disobedience. This was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. One of her biggest award she ever got was the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the NAACP, this was the greatest award the NAACP gave and she was also part of it. She was also in many Hall’s of Fame and President Bill Clinton gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She appeared in many magazines, books, she even wrote an autobiography, and won countless medals. She has helped achieve justice, fairness, and equality in not just African-Americans but everyone. She is truly an inspiration to everyone. She was very brave and had a very strong personality. Her lasting legacy is that she started the Civil Rights Movement and that helped bring equality to all people in America like the constitution promised everyone. That would mean no more “separate but equal” and no more