Civil Rights Activists: Rosa Parks

How Rosa Parks Made a Difference in the World Today.

Rosa Parks was known for her inspiring impact on African-Americans of the world. Rosa was sick of the way she was treated just because she was different color. Rosa Parks was a Civil Rights Activist who stood up for what she believed in and she fought for the rights as a young black woman. The African-Americans were treated like garbage, including Rosa Parks. Rosa had enough of how her and her people were treated. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, to her parents James Mccauley and Leona Edwards. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was teacher . Her mother took her and her brother to a small town called Pine Level in Montgomery, Alabama.

When she was eleven, she attended Industrial School for Girls. She took various classes and academic courses at her public school. Rosa Parks went to Laboratory School for Secondary Schools. Which Rosa was never finished because she was forced to drop out because she had to take care of her mother and grandmother. In Rosa Park’s early life she grew up knowing the Jim crow laws of the south. The Jim Crow law separated the white from blacks in every part in their daily lives. They were separated in public restroom, drinking fountains, schools, and transportation (rosa parks facts.com)

The Jim Crow laws were created by white members of the Democratic Party in the Southern States between 1876 and 1963. The Jim Crow laws created many problems for the African-Americans. They banned interracial marriage (rosa parks facts.com) Rosa never returned to her studies after her grandma got ill. She got a job at the shirt factory in Montgomery. In 1932 at age nineteen Rosa met and married Raymond Parks. Raymond Parks was a barber. With Raymond’s help she got an high school degree in 1933. Rosa Parks became involved in Civil Rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1943. Serving as the chapters youth leader NAACP President E.N Nixon-A post she held until

She took the seat on the bus in the colored section. The bus drivers have the authority to give assign seats because of the cities bus ordinance. The city’s bus ordinance did not specially say you had to give up your seat . If there were no places for the white passengers to sit, the African-Americans would have to give up their seats. If the African-American doesn’t give up their seat, the bus driver would have to call the police. As the bus Rosa was riding continued on the route it began to fill in with a lot of white passengers. The bus driver noticed there was white people standing in the aisles. The bus driver stopped and moved the sign separating the two sections back one row and asked four African-Americans women to give up their seat. Three went up and gave them their seats, but Rosa stayed in her seat. The driver said “Why don’t you stand up?” Rosa replied, “I don’t think I should have to stand up!” The driver called the police and had her arrested. Later the police thought she didn’t give up her seat because she was “physically tired, but she tired of giving in”.

Since Rosa stood up for herself, the world wasn’t the same. The entire black community boycotted the buses. They were not getting to work on time, so they would leave their homes earlier and then walk. Rosa and many members of the NAACP were also included in the boycott. The bus companies were not getting any money, and only