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Rosa Parks

 

Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Alabama. In 1932, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist.

She was called the "Mother of the Modern-Day American civil rights movement" and "the mother of the freedom movement"

 

During this time, the city of Montgomery was segregated. This meant that things were different for white people and black people. They had different schools, different churches, different stores, different elevators, and even different drinking fountains.

Places often had signs saying "For Colored Only" or "For Whites Only" the story of Rosa Parks began on December 1, 1955.

When Rosa rode the bus to work, the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus. Parks refused to move. She was a member of the local chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

During this time in America blacks did not enjoy the rights they have today. Rosa remembered living in fear when she was a child as a result of the insults and prejudices against people of her race.

Rosa park's actions lead a revolution because she insisted on sitting in a "white area" of the bus ,that black people couldn't sit there. As a result of her actions, a boycott of buses developed ,and speared all over united states.

it was the first time that black people did something like this action in so bravely way.

the ramifications of Rosa parks action's was many and speared in many different ways like:

*The civil rights in united states started to speared  ,from Alabama ,and then to south US and then to all the country.

* She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation.

At the same time, local civil rights activists initiated a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. In cities across the South, segregated bus companies were daily reminders of the inequities of American society. Since African Americans made up about 75 percent of the riders in Montgomery, the boycott posed a serious economic threat to the company and a social threat to white rule in the city.

 

ROSA PARKS quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting down. She did all this acts and change the world. In the past a black people cant sit on the bus and now the present of usa is black.