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Rosa Parks: Segregation In The United States

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Rosa Parks is an African American who grew up in a time of segregation and oppression in the early 20th century. This type of segregation in the United States that Mrs. Parks lived through was based off of the idea that blacks, according to law, must be separated from whites. It can be seen in many public locations such as the white bathrooms and “colored” bathrooms. Blacks and whites were often segregated upon schools, sports, public locations, and especially in the case of Rosa Parks, public transportation. Rosa Parks is widely known for her uncompromising attitude on December 1, 1955. On this day she decided to refuse to give up her seat to a white man, which was a misconduct according to the Montgomery City Code. Rosa Park’s arrest lead
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For starters, Rosa seated herself in the front of the public bus where only white people were allowed to sit. This caused an uproar on the bus, which ultimately sent Rosa to jail. “By not giving up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks's quiet defiance triggered the escalation of a major social movement by black Americans seeking equality under the law” (Gale). She was an inspiration to other African American citizens to not be silenced by whites. Parks defied the law and helped strengthen equality.

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1. On December 1955, Rosa was sitting in the front section in the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section, when more white people got on, and filled up the white section, the black people were supposed to give up their seats to the white people, but one brave black person, Rosa parks refused to give up her seat. The bus driver said, “Let me have those front seats” and she refused.

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There are so many challenges that Rosa Parks faced in life. One challenge was that she was trained to be political. Another challenge was that Rosa was trained to work at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montogomery, Alabama. Her third challenge was that she decided to not let other people boss her around. One of Rosa’s first challenges was that she was trained to be political.

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The Story Behind Rosa Parks’ Arrest Rosa Parks was a highly respected woman from Montgomery Alabama who was involved her community. After her arrest on a public bus on December 1st 1955, all public transportation was boycotted by African American citizens. The bus boycott sparked the Civil Rights Movement which aimed to end racial inequality. Due to the unjust arrest of Rosa Parks, the Civil Rights Movement began. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913.

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Martin Luther King Jr. may have been one of the people who indeed caused the success of Montgomery. But, Rosa Parks was another significant person that created a huge difference within the Montgomery Bus Boycott movement that lead to its success. As the document on kingencyclopedia states “Neither arrest, however, mobilized Montgomery’s black community like that of Rosa Parks later that year. “ This quotation was referring to Mary Louise Smith and Claudette Colvin came before the Parks and her defiance act against the law, however those two couldn’t make the black community move to their feet as Park’s arrest did. As Jo Ann Robinson (leader of the Women's Political Council) and NAACP leader E.D. Nixon suggested a boycott in response to Park’s

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Summary The film Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is written and directed by Robert Houston, and produced by Robert Hudson, Bill Couturie and Dulanie M. Ellis. The film centers around the bus boycott at Montgomery by Rosa parks (Houston, 2002). There is an interesting aspect, whereby, observers and participants of the bus boycott at Montgomery are joined by their daughters, nephews, sons, nieces and grandchildren to tell the story in a figurative and memorable manner. The film centers on the traditional aspect played by Rosa Parks, and develops into a valuable footage that portrays the entire boycott.

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What would you do if you were Rosa Parks? I will be talking about Rosa Parks and her decision. The things that will be in here is her birth, death, family, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her everyday life. This is about her birth, death, and family. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913.She passed away on October 24, 2005.

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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

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Blacks began to stand up against the racial segregation. In December of 1955, four months after Emmett Till’s death, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested for breaking the Jim Crow law. It was a law for blacks to always sit in the back of the bus away from whites or give up their seats for whites. When Rosa Parks was later asked why she refused to give up her seat she replied, “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired…but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically…

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Rosa Parks was born on Feb.4,1913 in Tuskegee,Ala. Rosa parks was one important part of the civil rights movement. She wanted for all black people to be treated the same as white people. She went to a Alabama State teachers college.

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Rosa Parks is known for the mother of civil rights;her knowledge in civil rights led to her rebellion against racism and hate. When Rosa was younger she was very aware of Jim crow laws. Black people had to ride different busses than white people to school(."Montgomery”). She went to a public school at age eleven and later dropped out to take care of her grandma.

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