rosa parks essay by bri

“At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.” (Rosa ParksIs this from a website, book, interview?)) Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. She died on October 24, 2005; she was diagnosed with progressive dementia in 2004. Rosa Parks had a hard background mainly because of her race. However, because of what she stood up for, a lot of things changed in our world. She started a major chain reaction.

Rosa Parks had a harder childhood than most white people in that time period because of segregation. Rosa was sick much of the time and therefore becamewas a smaller child.why was she sick? When her parents eventually separated, her mother took her and her brother to a little town called, Pine Level in Alabama. where did she start, though?There, she lived on her grandparents’ farm. what impact did this have on her do you think?She was very religious and believed in God greatly. why?Rosa did not attend a public school until she was eleven; before that her mother home schooled her. why was she home schooled?She then attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Rosa took various vocational and academic courses. As her secondary course she took a laboratory class. Although, Rosa never completed her laboratory course there because her grandmother was becoming ill. with what?Rosas’ childhood life was greatly influenced by the Jim Crow laws of the south, which segregated white people from the blacks in most every day life. "Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...' 'You are not equal to...” (Martin Luther King Jr.) I wouldn't state it like this. I would say: Martin Luther King, Jr., a black activist of the 50's and 60's, once said, "Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...' 'You are not equal to...”He was another black fighting for the same thing Rosa Parks stood up for. I would get rid of the previous sentence. Public buses were offered to blacks as long as they sat in the back, and there was enough room for all whites. “Rosa recalls her grandfather standing at the front door of the farmhouse with a loaded shotgun in his hand while he watched as the Ku Klux Klan marched down their street. As frightening as this was to her as a little girl, it taught her much about the very real prejudices against blacks in American culture.” (Rosa Parks said in her autobiography)You need to site it formally. This riot showed Rosa about the real danger she could get into as an African American. She then married a Montgomery barber in 1932 and became Mrs. Raymond Parks. He helped her to become a fighter and she joined his group for standing up for blacks. That was just one other way she helped to even out blacks and whites.

Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in and it started a chain reaction. “She was on a bus, which during those times black people had to give up their seats if a white person wanted it. Most black people would have to sit in the back and without a seat, and when someone came and wanted the seat, she said No. They called the police and she was arrested.” (From wikipedia source) If segregation were still going on in modern days, I would be one of the few white people that helped blacks fight segregation.not first person “This news was heard by Martin Luther King Jr. who rallied many people to start a petition by not riding the buses. Eventually the bus transportation went very low on money that they decided they would allow white and black people to be able to sit wherever they want on the bus.” (From a wikipedia source) Just one action can lead to many others and that point is showed by Martin Luther King Jr.; but wouldn’t have happened without Rosa Parks standing up for herself.