First Sentence; exact and specific answer to my question
The story of Rosa Park’s arrest has been told many times and has many different versions. Many people don’t know the real story of Rosa Park’s arrest because they listen but they don’t research. It is important for people to not always believe what they are told and to sometimes so their own research. It is sad that some don’t because true stories like Rosa Park’s aren’ t known.
Background Information
“Parks, a former seamstress, became the first woman to lie in honor in the Capital rotunda, sharing the tribute bestowed upon Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and other national leaders.”
According to the professional historian, Christopher Friendly, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and other
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“Parker witnessed the Emmett Till kidnapping, an event civil rights heroine Rosa Parks credited with giving her the courage to refuse to give up her seat on a bus.” The kidnapping of Emmit till is what gave Rosa Parks her courage to refuse to give her seat up on the bus that day. A 14 year old boy whistled to a white girl and white men beat him up to death. The mother wanted to show everybody what they had done to a little boy so she had an open casket funeral and asked photographers to take a picture of hist beaten up face and put it all over the newspaper.
Despite ending slavery, African-Americans faced harsh, state-sanctioned discrimination and violence in the south. Skin color determined access to public and private facilities, and even the judicial system.
People saw Mrs Parks as an uneducated, due for no good, black person. Rosa did not fully finish her education until she met Raymond Parks, her husband, who encouraged her to finish school. It wasn’t her fault she hadn't done it before because she left school to care of her ill mother and grandmother.
After graduating, she wished to dedicate herself to the destruction of segregation. She worked with the NAACP, where she guided peaceful protests, mentored young people, and challenged the legality of