Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement‚whom the United States Congress called the “first lady of the civil rights and the mother of freedom Movement. Rosa Parks was born February 4‚1913 and died October 24‚2005. On December 1 1995 after a long day of work at a Montgomery department store where she had worked at as a seamstress Rosa Parks board the Cleveland Avenue bus for home She took a seat in the first several rows that were only for “colored passengers”
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Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist known as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” born on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Parks had ancestors that were slaves and was very aware of segregation. She earned the name of the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in December of 1955 by refusing to give up her seat to a white man as she was told to do by the bus driver. She did this with the intention of a new movement with better rights for all colored
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Civil rights activists Rosa Parks was born‚ Rosa McCauley on February 4‚ 1913‚ in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her maternal grandparents‚ Rose and Sylvester Edwards‚ were former slaves. Her mother‚ Leona Edwards‚ was a teacher‚ and her father‚ James McCauley‚ was a carpenter‚ bricklayer‚ and stone man. Rosa was the first of two children. Rosa’s parents had different reasons for wanting to live in Tuskegee. Rosa’s mother knew Tuskegee was the best place in Alabama for African Americans to get an education
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being racist and discriminatory to people of color‚ Rosa Parks decided to peacefully resist standing up so a white person could take her seat. She knew her action would most likely result in being arrested‚ but she continued to do it anyway. This to me was a peaceful resistance to a law‚ because she didn’t agree with it and she knew what the consequence would be and while doing this nobody got hurt. The boycott of the buses that resulted from Rosa Parks
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Rosa Parks A very inspirational civil rights activist once said‚ “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.” This civil rights activist is sometimes recognized as the "Mother of the U.S. civil rights movement" (Encyclopædia Britannica) . Her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is the most influential women in the last century. Parks was a seamstress‚ secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored
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Rosa Parks said‚ “Memories of our lives‚ of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” In December of 1955 Rosa Parks decided that she had had it with the way that herself and other African Americans were being treated so she took a stand. She wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus to a white man. These actions later got her arrested but they also helped her make a huge change. Her life‚ works and deeds played a big role in changing society’s perspective of African American culture then‚ and
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Daijon Hunter Mr. Mata Language Arts-3‚ Period 1 Wednesday October‚ 5 Against The Power “…A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it‚ there be no road between.” This is basic thinking for genocide and the way genocide works. If you are against the group in power then you are as good as dead to them. In the crucible this is exactly what happens‚ the court inflicts fear upon the people and tells them they are either with or against the court. This was in certain ways
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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks‚ born in February of 1913 is known today for what she did while boarding a bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama on December 1‚ 1955. Parks’s role as a civil rights activist in the mid 1900s sprung from her experiences as a child being the victim of segregation. Both in and outside of school‚ African Americans were treated as inferior to whites. Her role began not long after earning her high school degree at the age of nineteen when she became apart of the NAACP—the National Association
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Thanks to the courage of Rosa Parks‚ just one bus trip changed the future of the whole nation and had a huge impact on the movement in support of civil rights throughout the world. At that time in America‚ and especially in the southern states‚ the so-called laws of Jim Crow‚ adopted after the Civil War‚ were being operated. These acts concerned almost every aspect of the everyday life of the representatives of the colored population and severely restricted their rights: for blacks‚ there were separate
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Scouting has been a huge part of my ever since I was very little. I joined cub scouts when I was in the first grade and went all the way up through cub scouts and then crossed over into boy scouts when I was old enough. The Boy Scout program was completely different than Cub Scouts to me. Cub Scouts is adult lead because the kids are not old enough to do things on their own but one of the main purposes of Boy Scouting is to install the ideas of leadership in the youth so Boy Scouts is “boy lead”
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