Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". I chose this African American lady because she stood up for her self and showed those white folks that she was not to be messed with. Rosa Parks had many accomplishments. She she stood up for herself. She was riding a bus and then the bus driver told her to give up her seat so that a white man could sit down. She said no. She stood up for herself and was arrested. She joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1943 and devoted her life to the cause of American civil rights and equality, until her death in 2005 at age 92. Rosa parks hated the ways of her life. She had always dreamed of having freedom in her life. As she grew up, she went through different experiences that gave her courage and strength.  

All the black passengers including Rosa Parks were treated like cattles. sometimes the bus drivers would drive off without them after they paid their fare. this would happen to elderly people or pregnant women in bad weather or good and was considered a joke by the drivers. frequently the white bus drivers abused their passengers, calling them black cows or black apes. But Rosa parks wasn't the first to give up her seat, in march 1955 a fifteen-year-old girl name claudette colvin refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Everybody who refused to give their seat up would get arrested. Rosa Parks is an extraordinary person because she stood up against racism and stood up for herself. It was even harder for her because she was a woman, and in those days, things were much harder for women.