Why Is Rosa Parks Important To The Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to a teacher and a carpenter. One of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave. When she was little, she suffered from poor health because of tonsillitis. Rosa took classes at rural schools till she was eleven. She went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but dropped out to take care of her grandmother and her mother after they became sick. Parks said she was bullied by white children in her neighborhood and she mostly fought back physically. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks. He was a member of the NAACP. In December 1943, Parks …show more content…
In 1944, while she was still working as a secretary, she investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a black woman from Abbeville, Alabama. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists organized "The Committee for Equal Justice" for Recy Taylor. Rosa Parks was significant in the civil rights movement because ignited something that sparked change in the bus system. Busses were segregated, which meant black and white people could not sit together. Seats for black people were in the back and the seats for white people were in the front. On December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery, Parks got on the Cleveland Avenue bus. she paid the bus fare and went to an empty seat in the back that was reserved for blacks, which her row was directly behind a row for the whites. The bus got to its third stop in front of the Empire Theater. Some white passengers got on the bus but they started to stand because there were no more seats. The bus driver moved the "colored" sign behind Mrs. Parks and told the four black people that were sitting in the row to get up and move further to the back so the few white people that were standing could sit down. The other 3 people moved but Rosa moved to the window seat. The driver asked her to get up again but she
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to a teacher and a carpenter. One of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave. When she was little, she suffered from poor health because of tonsillitis. Rosa took classes at rural schools till she was eleven. She went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but dropped out to take care of her grandmother and her mother after they became sick. Parks said she was bullied by white children in her neighborhood and she mostly fought back physically. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks. He was a member of the NAACP. In December 1943, Parks …show more content…
In 1944, while she was still working as a secretary, she investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a black woman from Abbeville, Alabama. Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists organized "The Committee for Equal Justice" for Recy Taylor. Rosa Parks was significant in the civil rights movement because ignited something that sparked change in the bus system. Busses were segregated, which meant black and white people could not sit together. Seats for black people were in the back and the seats for white people were in the front. On December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery, Parks got on the Cleveland Avenue bus. she paid the bus fare and went to an empty seat in the back that was reserved for blacks, which her row was directly behind a row for the whites. The bus got to its third stop in front of the Empire Theater. Some white passengers got on the bus but they started to stand because there were no more seats. The bus driver moved the "colored" sign behind Mrs. Parks and told the four black people that were sitting in the row to get up and move further to the back so the few white people that were standing could sit down. The other 3 people moved but Rosa moved to the window seat. The driver asked her to get up again but she