Nevertheless, Rosa Parks is a great hero because “I learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again(Shipp).
In addition, by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement
in the United States. The leaders of the local black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws. Led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted more than a year—during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job—and ended only when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Over the next half-century, Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end entrenched racial segregation(Shipp).
Also, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development “Pathways to Freedom program, traces the underground railroad into the civil rights movement and beyond. Youth, ages 11 through 17, meet and talk with Mrs. Parks and other national leaders as they participate in educational and historical research throughout the world. They journey primarily by bus as “freedom riders” did in the 1960′s,the theme: “Where have we been? Where are we going(Shipp)?
In conclusion,Rosa Parks was a really great Civil Rights Activist and she did take some great risks that lasted forever, so,that's why I think that Rosa Parks is the best hero I have ever chosen in this essay.