Rosa Parks: The Mother Of The Civil Rights Activist

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks’ decided that she was going to sit in the white section on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. African Americans were not permitted to sit in the front of the buses. Her refusal to give up her seat for a white man helped change segregation nationwide. Rosa Parks’ helped give African Americans equal rights in this world today.
When Rosa Parks’ was younger, she had experience with racial discrimination and racial equality. When her parents separated her mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama. They moved to Alabama to live with her mother’s parents Rose and Sylvester Edwards. They were both former slaves and strongly preached for racial equality. “One experience Parks’ had in the house in Alabama was Ku Klux Klan members marching down their neighborhood street” (Biography.com Editors 21).
She met her husband, Raymond Parks, and became involved in the NAACP in 1943. “When she was younger, she watched the white children get on the bus to go to school while she and her friend had to walk to their one room school” (Thomas Lambert). Those memories stayed with her as she grew up. She never understood why the blacks and whites had to be separated, all she had ever wanted was equal rights in this world. Rosa Parks’ was a courageous person who worked hard to change the inequality facing African Americans during that