Short presentation of Rosa Sparks and JFK

Rosa Parks was an activist, African-American in origin, who with her action to refuse to give her seat to a white man became a symbol for the civil right movement. The event took place on December the 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks entered the bus and sat in the ”coloured” section of it where coloured people were aloud to sit. After the white section became full she denied giving her seat, as she was ordered to do by the driver to another white man. She was then arrested and went into trial. She was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code. The code was making sure that coloured and white people had separate seat section in the buses. Her trial led to a Montgomery bus boygott by the black community. People and the press referred to about 40000 commuters to walk long distances, some for about 30km, to go to their jobs instead of taking the buses the day trial started. Rosa Parks received high recognition after her action. She became a symbol of the fight for human rights in USA, the U.S. Congress itself named her “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”, thought she have had tough times. However she never regretted as she herself mentioned it once interviewed in the early ´90s. “I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time... there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, known also by his initial JFK, was the 35th president of United Stated from January 1961 till November 1963 when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was the son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, the second one of nine kids. He descended from a family of politicians since his grandfather and father were also involved in politics. He had Irish roots and became the first Roman Catholic president. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a charismatic figure, a great politician of the