'In Memoriam': Rosa Parks

In Memoriam: Rosa Parks is an article on the Mother of the civils’ right movement, Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa Parks is the women that refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. She is the reason the bus boycott started and is a strong and inspirational women in black history. She admitted that she did get up out of her seat because she was tired. Not psychically tired but tired of giving in to white people. She was tired of being single out base off of her race. Rosa decision to stand up for what she believed in, is what contributed to everyone living in an equal world of today. She is the reason people are able to sit where they want to on the bus. She is one of several individuals who fought for the change that we all see.
Rosa Park was a NAACP member who helped the organization take a move towards segregation.
In the article she talks about several myths on her courageous acts. She admits to not having intention on being arrested. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community is what launched the famous bus boycott. The bus boycott is a thirteen month mass protest that ended with the U.S Supreme ruling against segregation on buses. Mrs. Park’s bravery is what contributed to the United States becoming united. Blacks knew that segregated buses unfair but it took her action to call attention in the community. She is a symbol of the struggle for civil rights. This historical event is one that is a collective action. It pushed blacks to come together as one. The black communities together was more efficient than them fighting separately. The bus boycotts, along with Brown vs Education and the murder of Emmitt Till is the passage that lead to the civils right
legislation. Later years, Rosa Parks and her family moved to Detroit because she was unable to find work in Alabama. In Detroit she worked as a seamstress until John Conyers hired her as an aide. Over the last decades of her life she suffered from dementia .In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in Detroit. This organization was created to give career training for teenagers. This organization is still active today and purpose still remains the same. The organization carries on the lifework of Rosa Park and motives youth to reach their fullest potential.
After Rosa Parks’ death she left a legacy. People all over the world came to view her body in the national rotunda. Many of those individuals included national leaders. She is buried in Buried in Detroit, alongside her husband. Rosa has received numerous award, citations, and an honorary degrees in her lifetime. An honoree degree is a Presidential Medal of Freedom. It is the highest award in the United States and is only given to people who makes a tremendous contribute to the United States of America. Rosa Parks is a major part of American history. She seen a situation in the world and went to conquer it. Her life story is one that is taught throughout the nation and will be told for generation to generations. She is a symbolic of bravery, wise, and strength. Her strength is mentally and physically because her mind she what caused the action and her body is what followed. Rosa Parks’ memory lives forever.