Speech On Rosa Parks
The day was December 1, 1955 , were 42-year old Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat. I remember the day clearly; it was like it was happening to me. I will never forget how brave she was, and how much courage it took to stand up to a white man. It all started when Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in. She believed in equality for all. That is why she refused to give up her seat to a whiter persoon. It wasn't that she was physically tired, she was just tired of giving in. AS as result, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring blacks to relinquish their seats to white people when the bus was full. I truly admire her courage to this very day. A part of me wish it was me who refused to give up her seat; instead
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Her refusal to surrender her seat, spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. I personally participated in the citywide boycott because I wanted to have a purpose in life; and to help support a cause was my purpose. Rosa was always a tough, strong-minded woman. That is another reason why I admire her. At a young age, her parents got divorced and they were forced to move in with her grandparents. For financial reasons. She attended school all the way through 11th grade, when she had to drop out. She had to set aside her school duties because she had to attend to her sick grandmother and mother. I envied her because I never had the opportunity to go to school. Well not really anyways, I had to at an early age of 10 to help my parents out with the farm. Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, she had to go to trial for violating a local ordinance. When she arrived she was greeted by a bustling crowd of around 500 local supporters As a consequence of the boycott, some segregationists retaliated with violence; to end the boycott. The segregationist Burned Black Churches, and bombed MLK and E.D Nixon's homes with bombs. My brother was killed in one of the churches that they set on fire. He wasn't doing anything wrong; he was just at the wrong place at the wrong
Her refusal to surrender her seat, spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. I personally participated in the citywide boycott because I wanted to have a purpose in life; and to help support a cause was my purpose. Rosa was always a tough, strong-minded woman. That is another reason why I admire her. At a young age, her parents got divorced and they were forced to move in with her grandparents. For financial reasons. She attended school all the way through 11th grade, when she had to drop out. She had to set aside her school duties because she had to attend to her sick grandmother and mother. I envied her because I never had the opportunity to go to school. Well not really anyways, I had to at an early age of 10 to help my parents out with the farm. Before the Montgomery Bus Boycott, she had to go to trial for violating a local ordinance. When she arrived she was greeted by a bustling crowd of around 500 local supporters As a consequence of the boycott, some segregationists retaliated with violence; to end the boycott. The segregationist Burned Black Churches, and bombed MLK and E.D Nixon's homes with bombs. My brother was killed in one of the churches that they set on fire. He wasn't doing anything wrong; he was just at the wrong place at the wrong