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    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 than whites did even though they were still people too. The civil rights movement may have stopped in 1968‚ but this kind of racism still exists today‚ for example‚ the KKK. The Civil Rights Movement all started when Rosa Parks refused

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    negative impact on a free society. Majority of peaceful assemblies can give the group of activist their freedom of speech and views towards something they believe in. Famous public figures like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Park’s civil disobedience had a powerful effect on the world. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move her seat for a white men while sitting on a segregated white bus in Montgomery‚ Alabama on December 1st‚ 1955. Similarly‚ Claudette Colvin found herself in the same predicament

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    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott Since the earliest of times African Americans have been denied their rights. Finally when having enough of this discrimination they started a movement in 1955 that would soon be called the civil rights movement. This was initially triggered by the death of a young African American boy at the age of fourteen named Emmett Till. All of which would initiate a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality of all people. Starting with Rosa Parks and

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    An African American woman named Rosa Parks had just got off of work and got on the bus to go home. She sat on the front row of the colored section. Whe the white section had gotten filled the bus driver told Rosa and three other African Americans to move so the whites could sit down. Everyone moved but Rosa. She was arrested and fined ten dollars and four more dollars for court fees. Rosa had had many encounters with this particular bus driver before. One time Rosa walked to the front of the bus to

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    about what you’re doing when it’s right”‚ was one of the most world changing quotes by Rosa Parks. She said this due to the fact that not too long ago‚ a bus driver demanded her to give up her seat just because she was colored. Rosa being a strong woman and really stubborn‚ she stayed where she felt was right and wasn’t scared at all of the consequences‚ yet she knew death was a possibility. Without Rosa Parks standing up for what she believed in‚ the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ which was the most successful

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    Rosa Parks Racism has always been an issue in the United States. African Americans were always treated badly and were denied basic rights like eating at a certain restaurant or even sitting at certain place in a bus. However on December 1st one woman had had enough of the unfair treatment and finally took a stand. Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat and give it to a white bus rider and was arrested. Her arrest ignited a bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King and for 381 days African

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    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Alabama and died on October 24‚ 2005. Her parents were She only attended segregated schools but then dropped out in 11th grade‚ due to her needing to help her dying grandmother and mother. She then worked and didn’t go back to getting a good education. until she was 19 when her husband told her she should. When she was young‚ she saw the Ku Klux Klan terrorize some part of their neighborhood‚ this is when she first saw in her eyes the unfairness

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    Rosa Parks was a black seamstress in Montgomery‚ Alabama. She was arrested for being courageous in 1955. While fed up with white racism; she did not give up her bus seat to a white man. This preceded to the Montgomery bus boycott against the city’s bus system which Martin Luther King Jr. led. Ida B. Wells was the first African American to file a suit against discrimination after she was denied a seat on a railroad car for being black. She also founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement

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    through their actions. Having distinct qualities that makes one self-reliant and possesses unique characteristics to stand firmly alone for one’s beliefs can be defined as individualism. Some of the greatest luminaries of our time are Aristotle‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Sir Isaac Newton‚ who impacted the world through their revolutionary beliefs. As an individual in this vast world‚ I can still make contributions and stand out as an individualist. Aristotle made significantly valiant contributions to

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    about what you are doing if it is right.” Rosa Parks helped begin a civil rights movement to end the injustice against African Americans. For African Americans‚ the era before constitutional rights was scary and unfair. They tried to claim their authority as U.S. citizens in a country that refused to grant them freedom. According to CliffsNotes‚ many lived in poverty‚ and were denied the right to earn a reasonable wage. Blacks struggled for justice‚

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