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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Maya Angelous ‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Oprah Winfrey are all hero’s in today life. Each of them had an positive effect. However‚ the definition of an hero is someone who is honest‚ a leader and someone who is selflessness. Through using the traits of honest‚ leader and selflessness men and women rose above all and became heroes in the eyes of our society. Not everyone can be an hero but anyone can try to do the characteristics of an hero. Heros should always be honest. Honest heros expect honesty from
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Days before the boycott began‚ a bus began to fill up with white passengers‚ and Parks‚ a middle-aged black woman was then ordered to give up her seat for another white male. After refusing‚ she was arrested for defying segregation laws. This initiated a series of African American nonviolent protests and boycotts. Groups like the Southern
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women and Civil Rights Activist Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. I chose Rosa Parks because she was a great part of the Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama but she grew up in Pine Level‚ Alabama. Some of the Major influences in Rosa Parks LIfe was “My family‚ I would say‚ my mother‚ and my maternal Grandparents” said Rosa Parks. One event that I believe that influenced her is none‚ because Rosa Parks didn’t really have an event that
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to a worse one is when Rosa is explaining the situation in which two young teens from New Jersey were put in jail for a short period of time for sitting in the white section of the bus. “They boarded a city bus and took seats in the white section. The driver‚ S. T. Lock‚ drew his pistol on them and police also‚ because the two teenagers were arrested and held in jail for two days. This was July of
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the scar off of it over and over again” (Rosa Quotes)? This quote by Rosa Parks‚ is explaining the life she had in just one sentence. It hurt‚ and she knew what she was doing‚ but kept on doing it with will. Civil Disobedience is basically when protestors act in action and protest a law that have been purposefully violated (Suber). The purpose of this is to grab people’s attention to a certain law so they will look into changing it (Brownlee). Mrs. Parks involvement in civil disobedience was due
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in attitude”. Sometimes in hard situations or conflict the solution is to just be positive. If it doesn’t solve the conflict it will definitely help it. Examples of people that dealt with conflict with positivity are Anne Frank‚ Miss.Breed‚ and Rosa Parks. To start Anne frank is a person that dealt with the conflict of being a Jew during the holocaust by being positive. Anne was a young jewish girl that had to go into hiding so that she wouldn’t be brought to a concentration camp. She went into
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agents the crowd to stand out and make their word be heard. Two people that stand out and express their thoughts not only for themselves but for everyone are Rosa Parks from the Civil rights movement and Morrie Schwartz from the book Tuesdays with morrie. Both of these people have invested time to impact and change people’s lives for the better. Rosa Parks’s was a nonconformist and NAACP activist that made herself known throughout the civil
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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
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for themselves but first they had to make some sacrifices such as Rosa Parks being arrested. Another thing that caused the boycott to succeed was that the entire Negro states hat stuck together and really stuck it out through the whole boycott‚ and one of the last things that really helped the boycott was King’s speech to his audience‚ MIA. These 3 reasons were the main points of why the boycott succeeded. First‚ when Rosa Parks was arrested for it‚ it really set the motion of the boycott because
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