How Did Rosa Parks Show Courage

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama. Parks was the first of two children, along with her brother Sylvester McCauley destined to James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley. Her folks were agriculturist who held different employments, her father worked as a carpenter while her mom was also a teacher. She was a target for racial discrimination and segregation because of her appearance. Rosa began laboratory school for her secondary education but never completed it because she was forced to drop out to care for her ailing grandma. Her influences were her family who taught her not to feel less than anyone. By 1932 at the age of 19 she was married to a man by the name of Raymond Arthur Parks; Born February 12, 1903, in Wedowee Randolph Alabama. Her husband, a Montgomery barber, encouraged Rosa to finish her high school classes and get her high school diploma, which she successfully accomplished in 1933.Raymond was a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Which at the time was collecting money to support the defense of the Scottsboro, boys a group of black men falsely accused of raping two white women. Although Raymond and Rosa really wanted children they accepted that they

She was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus is full. Rosa’s arrested sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery system. Martin Luther King Jr, the 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church, emerged as a leader during the well- coordinated, peaceful boycott that lasted 381 days and captured the world’s attention. A Federal ruling, Browder V. Gayle, took effect and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be