Rosa Parks Research Paper

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Rosa Parks was a woman who made one simple act and changed a lot of people’s lives. Rosa Parks had a difficult childhood from the moment she turned eleven, she had many responsibilities at a young age from family issues to school and more. The 1950s were a very different time with many different laws and expectations. When Rosa grew older, she started working for a company called (NAACP) otherwise known as The National Association for The Advancement of Colored People. Rosa loved her job working for the NAACP, because she wanted to end segregation. Although Rosa Parks was not known as a person until she made the act on the bus which advanced into a civil rights movement, she still tried to help however she could, such as helping …show more content…

Rosa parks had a normal childhood until the age of eleven, when she was put into an all-girls private school after being home schooled for her first years of school. Rosa Parks went to a school called Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Rosa parks did not graduate high school because she had to take care of her ill grandmother. On top of taking care of her ill grandmother she had to take care of her brother and her mother. Rosa parks wanted to go to college but after her mother and grandmother became ill, she abandoned all her educational plans to take care of her family, later in her life she met her husband Raymond Parks and married him due to segregation on December 18, 1932, at the age of nineteen. Raymond died in 1977, then years later she had died October 24, …show more content…

Rosa parks was an African American woman who sat in the front of the bus and didn’t let a white man have her seat. Ever since Rosa Parks decided to stand up for not only herself but for other African American people similar acts occurred around the south. Rosa Parks became the first person to be honored with a state’s holiday. Which is the day she refused to give her seat to the man on the bus. Still to this day there is a day we honor what she did on December 1st every year. There was also a learning center opened 1998 in Michigan called Rosa L. Parks learning center. In conclusion Rosa Parks made a difference she helped herself and many other people. Rosa is the one who helped people be able to sit where they want on the bus and help other people gain the courage to help what was going on around themselves. Rosa parks helped abolish segregation, and made more people feel safe in this world. Rosa made such a big difference in this world that we still honor her sixty-eight years later. Rosa was one of the first people to stand up and not let somebody tell her that she can’t sit somewhere the bus. As a black woman growing up in the south in the 1950’s, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, thrusting The Civil Rights