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    Most people know Rosa Parks as the woman that refused to give up her seat. However‚ she is much more than that. She was involved with tons of civil rights work before and after that day. Not nearly as many people are aware of the people and events that influenced her as she grew up‚ or all of the work she did for the NAACP‚ but none of that changed the world as much as all of the work that she did on integrating buses. As important as her one famous event was‚ Rosa Parks did so much more than fight

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    2013 5th period Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born Feb.4th‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Her parents are Leona McCauley and James McCauley and she only had one brother name Sylvester. Rosa parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley she was in African American civil rights activist‚ whom the U.S. congress called ‘the first lady of civil rights and” “the mother of the free movement”. Rosa Parks went to Highland Research and Education Center and Alabama State University. Rosa Parks’s childhood brought

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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born February 4th‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. She was born to James and Leona McCauley. Rosa’s childhood was sadly filled with racial discrimination.. Several times‚ she saw Ku Klux Klan members.. Her parents split in 1915 shortly after her brother Sylvester was born. Rosa moved to her grandparents with her mom and brother in Pine Level‚ Alabama. She grew up around education since her mom was a teacher. At age 11‚ Rosa began schooling when she moved back to Montgomery

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    between you and your rights‚ you have the right to fight back. Without people who have fought to protect their rights‚ our world would look very different. For example‚ Rosa Parks‚ a women’s rights activist in the Civil Rights movement‚ once stated‚ “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa Park refused to surrender her seat on a bus for a white man‚ which in her time was unthinkable. This bus boycott helped launch a nationwide revolution and inspired many after

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    transportation‚ bathrooms‚ schools‚ etc. African Americans had specifically designated areas to eat‚ drink‚ socialize‚ and attend school. The facilities appeared to be more worn out and older than their dominant white counterparts whose facilities were newer‚ well maintained and overall in better shape. America was evidently separate‚ but never truly was equal.

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    Rosa Parks was a brave‚courageous‚and smart. She was born February 4‚ 1913‚ she was known for the Montgomery bus boycott. Even though blacks were discriminated Park’s didn’t believe in it‚ she was going to fight for what she believed in. Rosa Parks was a woman of her word. She had no children. Her mom’s name was Leona Edwards. Her dad’s name was James McCauley her dad was a carpenter.When Parks’s was a girl in school she had to walk to school. She became a symbol of struggle and freedom

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    in‚” said Rosa Parks after she remembers that her refusal wasn’t because she was physically tired‚ but tired of giving in. Rosa was tired of the bus drivers telling black passenger to give up their seats to white passengers. Since the bus drivers could call the police to have them removed if a black passenger protested. In the 1950’s Montgomery urged on city wide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. It was a long day of work for Rosa Parks as a seamstress

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    Rosa Parks is often referred to as the Mother of the modern civil rights movement. Historically she has been depicted as a prim‚ virtuous‚ diminutive lady who was merely too tired after a long day at work to move from her seat. Had she been Catholic she surely would have been canonized by now; St. Rosa‚ the patron saint of bus riders. Forty-two years old at the time of the bus boycott‚ she was described by Martin Luther King Jr‚ as “. . the victim–emphasis mine–of both the forces of history and the

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    Civil Rights Museum The Civil Rights Movement was a movement that started in the 1955 and ended in 1968. ("American civil rights movement") There were many important figures during this movement but the most popular leaders in this movement were Rosa Parks‚ Thurgood Marshall‚ and the most famous leader for the “I Have A Dream” speech‚ Martin Luther King Jr. ("Black Power") In these 14 years of discrimination‚ colored US citizens were basically being bullied. The colored citizens had way less rights

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    Why the world needs introverts Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Read by 53‚277 people Remove from timeline Tuesday 13 March 2012 Shy‚ unconfident‚ solitary: there are many popular conceptions of introversion – most of them negative – but the reality is far more complicated Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important

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