What Is Rosa Park A Good Role Model

Rosa Park is among well-known names back in 1950’s. She was born on February 4th, 1913 in the state of Alabama (Tuskegee).Her vision, inspiration and motivation served as a role model for others. Rosa Park was a type of leader who not only stood for her rights, but also for the other Negros who were constantly being avoided and mistreated. The reason I chose leader ‘Rosa Park’ as my topic is that she was a leader, who didn’t stand only for a specific area or limited people, but she stood for the whole race of black people. Her services for the civil rights moment are still incomparable.
Rosa Park was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, AL and died in 2005 by natural causes. The early life of Rosa Park was just like a common person and she belonged to
For example, black colored people were only allowed on the back seats. Even for the seating, white people were given priority to sit down while colored people were to stand. It was a similar day when ‘Rosa Parks’ was travelling on a bus and she sat on a front seat. It has been mentioned in history that Rosa Parks was forced to leave the front seat and to stand up as it was a right of white men, however she refused to leave the seat. However in an interview with Rosa, she said that, she wasn’t even sitting at the front. In fact she was seated on the last seat. However she was still forced to leave the seat and the place was instead offered to a white person. The incident forced Rosa to think about the civil rights and led to the raise of Rosa from a common person to one of the prominent leaders who started Civil Rights moment. An urgent bus boycott started the day, Rosa was arrested. The boycott was declared by Martin Luther King Jr. and lasted for more than a year before the decision of Supreme Court to rule out the segregation. About 35,000 flyers were sent to the houses of black people to boycott the buses. Rosa was trialed on December 5th and was found guilty. Her license was cancelled and was fined an amount of $10 plus $4 court fee. The amount was quite large at that time. Despite of safety threats, Rosa stood for her rights and joined NAACP (National Association for the
She was the member of NAACP as well as also had worked for Montgomery Voters League and others. Here she was working for organizations and that were having sharing powers. The main goal of both organizations was the same as that of Rosa Park which is the Civil Rights but both the organizations tasks and ways to work was different instead of having the same goals. Rosa shared powers and worked for these groups for achieving her goal that was to achieve Civil Rights of herself, her group and the whole