“It is not right to be deprived of freedom when we are living in the Home of the Brave and Land of the Free.” – Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was a hero who fought through opposition to further the civil rights of African-Americans. A lot of people have not heard of Rosa Parks, and those who have think that all she did was sit down on a bus seat, but she did so much more. When Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to move from her seat for a white man, it set off a chain of events that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The tremendous courage and bravery of ‘The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’ did not waver in the face of danger and she is now an international symbol of the resistance to …show more content…
Immediately after she died, all the front seats of city buses in Montgomery and Detroit were reserved with black ribbons in her honour until her funeral. At her memorial, United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said if it had not been for Parks, she would probably never have became Secretary of State. Parks was then given the honour of lying in state at the Rotunda, in the state capital. She was the first woman and second black person, along with the only non-U.S governmetal official, to be given this honour. In her life, Parks won many awards for her many accomplishments, including the Springarn Medal, the Martin Luther King Jr. Award, and she was even presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton himself.
Rosa Parks was a hero. She must be have one of the toughoust women in history. She has fought through so many hardships to help other people and so that she could see a future of equality. She was selfless and, in all aspects of the word, heroic. She was most definitely a positive force for change because she had the will to do what needed to be done, while at the same time was honest, kind, and caring. She wouldn’t let people push her around. At the same time she wasn’t looking for revenge and blood. Rosa only wanted equality and