A fearless woman of courage, hope, and determination, and one with an everlasting impact and story. The story of Rosa Parks' courageous act of standing up for the rights of colored to be treated fairly, by a simple gesture, sparked a movement across the nation, that still influences all until this day. A movement that changed the structure of equality in the nation, an effect we still see to this day. In a time of racial segregation, the colored were treated poorly with strict limitations, such as separation from the white in public (schools, churches, bathrooms, etc.), and the social aspect of life, as it was rare for a white to give hostility to a person of color. Civil rights were also not given equally to the colored, lacking rights such …show more content…
She would also hear many horrifying stories of lynching, which shows how great of an affect the segregation of the country had in her life. Her mother Leona, sent Rosa at age eleven to Montgomery to live with a widowed aunt to enroll in a private school for black youth, to gain an education. The school Rosa attended, introduced her to the philosophies of self-worth and strict discipline. She took advantage of the opportunities for black women,and attended classes at Alabama State Teachers College (later renamed Alabama State University). It is evident in Rosa Parks' eagerness for opportunity and the want of education, of the difference she wanted to make in her life, as well as others suffering and being mistreated around her. Living in a time of being treated unequal and looked upon as a minority, it is understandable why she yearned to take every opportunity to educate herself as much as she could. I believe the self-worth she gained in her time of education, supported her courage to stand up for herself, and for those alike around her. A woman like many at the time, cleaning classrooms to pay for her tuition, would become one of the greatest strengths in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1932 she married Raymond