Imagine you are a black woman sitting on a bus during the civil rights movement. What would you do if a white man wanted to take your seat? I think you will find Rosa Parks decision very exciting. Rosa Parks life is exciting because it was the beginning of the civil rights movement. As many of you may know her as the one that started the boycott she also has an interesting early life. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on february 4, 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama (Baggett 2). For Rosa and many of the blacks it was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated busses twice a day. Parks valued her family, and later took on the responsibility of caring for her mother and brother (Baggett 2). Rosa later married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. Rosa worked as a seamstress and joined the NAACP with her husband in 1943 (Baggett 2). Fired from her job, her and Raymond moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1957 to find new work (“Rosa Louise …show more content…
It was not until Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on December 1, 1955, that she made history (Baggett 2). One day Rosa Parks was getting on another segregated bus on her way home from work that made her very tired. She ended up sitting in a white mans seat and did not get up when he asked her to. I did not get on the bus to get arrested she has said, I got on the bus to go home (Dove 3). The man said I am going to have you arrested and she said, you may go and do so (Dove 8). After she got out of jail it really made an imprint on people. She told everyone “Don’t ride the buses to work, to town, to school or anywhere on monday.” (Parks 127). That was the start of the bus boycott. I started traveling quite a bit, making appearances because of my arrest and the boycott. Then I did work for the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) (Parks 143). Over the years Parks received many honors for her civil rights