“No”- Rosa Parks Rosa Parks is very brave and self confident and stands up for what she believes in. Rosa Parks demonstrated a great act of moral courage with the Montgomery bus incident in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat. Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended segregated schools in Montgomery throughout all her years of education.In 11th grade she left school and went to help out her sick grandmother and mother in Pine Level, she never came back to school and instead got a job at a shirt factory. Rosa has always been strong and courageous. Moral Courage is the courage to take action for moral reasons despite the risk of adverse consequences. Rosa Parks is a great example of an individual who demonstrated moral courage when she refused to give up her seat and stood up for civil rights in 1955. …show more content…
Rosa Parks wanted to stand up to the police men and fight for her rights during her bus incident. She is having courage to fight back and get her rights. "Go ahead and call them." (UXL Biographies). Rosa Parks was willingly going to put herself in the position of getting in trouble and going to jail in order to get her rights she deserves. She is a brave women and fought for what she believed in. Rosa Parks felt she was being treated wrong and wanted to do something about it. In Rosa Parks autobiography she writes her feelings about the whole incident. She thought there needed a change and she was done giving in to racial segregation. "I felt just resigned to give what I could to protect against the way I was being treated." (UXL Biographies). Rosa Parks wanted to fix the way she was being treated along with anybody else that was treated that way. She is a strong independent women trying to let everyone know the