No:Rosa Parks "No" [Noh] "A negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in a response to a question or request." "No." Rosa Parks, Montgomery City Bus, December 1st, 1955. It was a long day at work for Rosa Parks, and she was tired for two different reasons. #1, working all day, and #2, of giving in. She was tired of thinking that her race was just a piece of trash that people could just throw around. She wanted change. Rosa Louise McCauley was born February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to Leona and James McCauley. Rosa's first experiences with racism were when she was a young child. One of her early memories of racial discrimination was when she saw her grandfather standing outside with a shotgun. The Klu Klux …show more content…
In 1915, Rosa became an older sister to Sylvester. Shortly after her brother was born, her parents separated. Rosa left with her mother, and moved to Montgomery, Alabama at 11 years old.(History) A short period of time after she moved there, Rosa started going to the laboratory school at Alabama's State Teacher's College for Negroes. She left school in 11th grade to help take care of her grandmother that was at death's door. Not long after her grandmother's death, her mother became chronically ill, and couldn't do anything on her own. Rosa could never graduate from high school. She started working at a shirt factory to make money and to help her family survive. (History …show more content…
December 1st, 1955. Rosa had just gotten off of work at the Montgomery Fair Department Store, and was extremely tired. She got on the bus, paid the fee, and sat down. The bus was busy. A white man arrived on the bus and the bus driver told Rosa to stand. "No." Rosa was tired of giving in and her simple response made her the mother of modern day civil rights. Police arrested Parks at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11(Biography.com Editors). The president of the NAACP, a group Rosa was in, bailed Rosa out of jail, and Rosa spent about a day in jail. She went to jail 3 months later for breaking the law of an organized boycotting, and was released quickly as