started researching on Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks‚ I realized who the true heroes really are! If you didn’t know‚ Nelson Mandela was one of the bravest‚ and the most courage’s man that would do anything to pay the price of racial segregation. And Rosa Parks is also one of the bravest and the most desperate women in the world. If Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks were not born. We wouldn’t have the freedom that we have today. Nelson Mandela and Rosa Parks have many similarities and many differences
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Matthew Kidney Rosa Parks I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: Imagine fighting a war where the only weapon you had was your mouth. Where you felt so far outnumbered that the motivation to fight was dwindling‚ and the chances of seeing tomorrow were close to nothing. Now imagine trying to single handedly change the course of that war‚ and change the course of many of your peers lives at the same time. Rosa Parks was that motivation B. Thesis Statement:
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During the lifetime of Rosa Parks‚ she was put up against many battles that she over came by always staying positive and never giving up. Rosa Parks can be compared to Jackie Robinson in many ways. Jackie Robinson was put on an all white baseball team in the late 1940s. African Americans were not accepted in baseball since it was considered a “white man’s game”. Rosa Parks was an African American lady who sat in the front of the bus even though blacks were suppose to sit in the back. Being discriminated
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Who was Rosa? Rosa was born in February 4 1913. She is was the eldest of 2 kids her and her younger brother Sylvester McCauley. She grew up with her grandmother grandfather and her mother. Her grandfather was the one who told her to stand up for what she believed in for what was right and too do it silently. Rosa then started the bus boycott! Rosa Parks Courage! This is who I think Rosa Parks showed courage in the toughest of times: Rosa was the person who did the bus boycott all because she was
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changing for the better due to the brave actions taken by Rosa Parks and the many African Americans who took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks is known as an activist during the African-American Civil Rights Movement who promoted the idea of racial equality and an end to segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. led his first nonviolent protest known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott where he advocated equal rights for all races. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are both remembered not for doing
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age Rosa parks learned how to read by her mother. Her childhood brought her early racial discrimination. She goes to a school in Pine level in Alabama there was only one room. They don’t have many school supplies they don’t even have desks. Also the African American students there only way to get to school is by walking when the white get bus transportation. Rosa Parks: She co-existing with the white people in a city governor by Jim Crow Laws she is fraught with daily frustrations. Rosa parks is
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Rosa Parks I think Rosa Parks was one of the greatest heroes in history. In 1955‚ Rosa did something that changed history for a long time. During that time it was illegal for African Americans to talk back to the white people. “It all began on December 1‚ when Parks boarded a city bus and sat at the front of the "coloured" section.”(“Woman who changed a nation”) The bus driver demanded to give up her seat for a white man but Rosa had been pushed around long enough and refused to give up her
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this amazing‚ influential person. First of all‚ family was very important to Rosa Parks. She was born on February fourth‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her maiden name is Rosa Louise McCauley. When Parks was sixteen years old‚ 1929‚ she dropped out of high school to help her grandmother. Her grandmother was very ill. After all Parks had gone through‚ about a month later‚ she passed away. This was a very tragic event for Parks because she was so close to her. When she was eleven years old‚ she enrolled
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“My Story” a non fictional novel written by “the civil rights activist” Rosa Parks herself along with Jim Haskins‚ shares Rosa’s personal journey battling through discrimination‚ racism and tells of her vital role in the struggle for equality for all Americans. The story reflects back on the time Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus back in 1955 and as of December the 1st was imprisoned for the “Bus Boycott”. She says “you must never be fearful about what you
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won the Nobel Peace Prize. He referred of trying to get freedom‚ to a “long walk to freedom”. He also said that a brave man isn’t a man that’s never afraid; it’s a man that could overcome the fear. I think he’s one of my heroes. Even though Rosa Parks passed away in 2005‚ she is still highly remembered. She is one of the world’s bravest and most desperate women in the World. She was especially brave when she didn’t give up her seat on the bus for a white person. Even though she was jailed for
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