ROSA MCCAULEY PARKS C By BACKGROUND Rosa Parks

ROSA (MCCAULEY) PARKS C By

BACKGROUND Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Then she moved to Pine Level at the age of two. As a young girl, all Rosa Parks wanted was to. Cbe treated like any other (white) little girl. But she lived in a community where that was almost impossible because of huge segregation. She feared for her life often. This was because of the Ku Klux Klan. They were an organization who killed blacks based on their opinions. Taught to read by her mother at a young age, Rosa went on to a small school house in Pine Level, Alabama, but she dropped out of high school to take care of her sick grandmother. And later, she caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

CHALLENGES v. Many people tried to discourage her, just because of her skin color. She overcame this by teaching them that everyone, no matter the skin color, is equal. C v. Also, she was arrested because she didn’t give up her seat for a white person. She overcame this when she got out of jail, she still refused to give up her seat because even though they tried to teach her a “lesson”, she still didn't believe them because her belief that all human beings are equal was too strong.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT She was involved C in the African American civil rights movement. The African American Civil Rights Movement was about all men should be created equal. She was one of the many people who kick-started this huge civil rights movement. By sitting in the whites only section, she was standing up for her race and she was arrested for her actions, but the movement became stronger. She was considered the “Mother of the American Civil Rights Movement”.

IMPORTANT QUOTES C“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right. ” “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. ”

WHAT DID SHE DO? Rosa Parks is known for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She started a C stand up for equal rights of all human beings. She helped proved that all humans are to be treated equally. The day of her trial, on December 5 th, 1955, her friends started the Bus Boycott that lasted 380 days.

COMPARISON TO THE TEXAS MINERS… C The Miners and Rosa Parks are similar in the fact they both had some of the same challenges. They were both discouraged by their skin color. Except Rosa Parks didn’t let her self be hurt by the comments she received, while the Miners couldn’t help but get hurt.

References vwww. wikipedia. com vwww. history. com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks v. Community. seattletimes. nwsource. com vwww. handspunited. org vhttp: //www. achievement. org/autodoc/page/par 0 bio-1 vhttp: //www. biography. com/people/rosa-parks-9433715#civil-rights-pioneer v. ROSA PARKS - From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement by Camilla Wilson