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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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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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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wrong‚ it was accepted and still went on as if there was nothing wrong at all. African-Americans were treated poorly because of the color of their skin that somehow‚ someway made them different. On December 1‚ 1955‚ a 42-year old African American‚ Rosa Parks‚ was coming home after a long day of work at a Montgomery department store. She boarded an Avenue bus and took a seat in the first of several rows designed for “colored” passengers. As the bus continued on its route‚ it began to fill with white
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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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Peaceful resistance to laws is a positive impact a free society because for example like Rosa Parks she helped the colored people a lot. She fought for what she thought was the right thing to do because the colored people were being pushed around without having their ideas spoken out. She was taken out the bus she was riding in because she didn’t want to move from the seat she was sitting in and she was pushed out the bus and was told a lot of bad racist things that I don’t think any one deserve
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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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By Riley Burt Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1‚ 1955 an African American woman named Rosa Parks‚ a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)‚ refused to stand to give up her seat to a white male as the Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ city bus was full and this was the expectation of African American people the buses were segregated and if the bus was full in the ’white’ section African Americans’ were expected to stand and let the white person
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diary Today is a very special day. I did something brave. Something I never thought‚ I’d have the courage to do. I know that after this‚ my life will never be the same‚ but I’m sure‚ it’s the right thing to do.I was on my way home after yet another long day of hard work. I was so tired when I took the bus although I was happy to finally be on my way home to my dearest husband. After so many hours sitting in a room too small for the number of people‚ I was exhausted. Who wouldn’t be?
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