Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks once said, “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa was a great example of not being afraid to do what the right thing was. All her life, she was told what to do by white people. She would do small things to stand up for herself and fight for her rights, but nothing seemed to quite change. She was an American civil rights activist. The United States Congress called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement” because what she did gave the civil rights movement much more momentum. On December 1, 1955, Rosa made history by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This moment spurred the Montogomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. When she was just two years old, she moved to her grandparents’ farm in Pine Level, Alabama. She lived on their farm with her mother and younger brother. She helped the family by working on their small farm. She also picked cotton on a nearby farm,

We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.” She was faced with so many difficulties and challenges in life by the way she was treated, but that did not stop her from facing those problems and get through them by fighting for what she thought was right. She was a great woman who fought for her rights during segregation. She knew that the way she was treated was completely wrong, and so wanted to do something that would change it. She wanted to prove that black people were just as equal as white people; black people should be treated the same way as white people. She never gave up in fighting for what was right. She is a great example of bravery and standing up herself, and will always be a great role model by the way she brought about herself; she was a very humble person in everything she