Rosa Parks Essay
Amber Cordero
Dr. Berezov
English 1101
November 13, 2014 Throughout history the fight against racial injustice has been an on going issue. Many people took part in the fight for racial equality, some had positive effects and some had negative effects. One person who had many positive effects was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks influenced the Montgomery Boycott that eventually led to the lifting of segregated seating laws for public transportation. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended local schools until the age of eleven where she then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Years later she ceased to attend school in order to take care of her grandmother and then her mother. In 1932 she married a man named Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery. After she married Raymond she finished high school and obtained her diploma. Rosa had been exposed to racism at a very young age. She recalls seeing the Ku Klux Klan marching down her street while her father stood outside with a shotgun. As a young girl, she never understood why African-American people were mistreated, but she never felt good about that situation. She grew up feeling very strongly about the racial injustices that were occurring during that time. Even her husband, Raymond, was an active member of the NAACP. Rosa eventually became a supporter and helped with fundraisers and other initiatives. Rosa Parks is best known for telling a white passenger “No” when asked to give up her seat on the bus, which ignited the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956. On December 1,1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a long day of work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store. It was a common understanding that as the busses filled up with more white passengers, the African-American passengers had to give up their seats and stand in the back of the bus. Bus drivers had the authority to change the position of the sign separating the whites and blacks
Dr. Berezov
English 1101
November 13, 2014 Throughout history the fight against racial injustice has been an on going issue. Many people took part in the fight for racial equality, some had positive effects and some had negative effects. One person who had many positive effects was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks influenced the Montgomery Boycott that eventually led to the lifting of segregated seating laws for public transportation. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended local schools until the age of eleven where she then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Years later she ceased to attend school in order to take care of her grandmother and then her mother. In 1932 she married a man named Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery. After she married Raymond she finished high school and obtained her diploma. Rosa had been exposed to racism at a very young age. She recalls seeing the Ku Klux Klan marching down her street while her father stood outside with a shotgun. As a young girl, she never understood why African-American people were mistreated, but she never felt good about that situation. She grew up feeling very strongly about the racial injustices that were occurring during that time. Even her husband, Raymond, was an active member of the NAACP. Rosa eventually became a supporter and helped with fundraisers and other initiatives. Rosa Parks is best known for telling a white passenger “No” when asked to give up her seat on the bus, which ignited the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1956. On December 1,1955 Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a long day of work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store. It was a common understanding that as the busses filled up with more white passengers, the African-American passengers had to give up their seats and stand in the back of the bus. Bus drivers had the authority to change the position of the sign separating the whites and blacks
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