Rosa+Parks

one person can change the world! At the age of 42, Mother of Civil Rights Movement Rosa Parks changed America. On Thursday, December 1, 1955 at around 6 p.m.,Rosa Parks was orderd to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.She refused to give up her bus seat. Because the of the fact that she refused to give up her seat she was arrested.She began the movment that ended legal segregation. http://e-portals.org/Parks/rosa1.gif
 * Rosa Louise McCauley Parks**

After being arested all she had to say was "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, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Although she had not taken a white passenger's seat, she had been in the colored

So because of this she began the Mortgomery Bus Boycott and on December 4, 1955 it was announced at black churches in the area. She began a movement that ended legal segregation in America.They wanted to protest, so they said was "We are...asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial ... You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday." That monday it rained but still about 40,000 blacks walked, some even walked 20 miles! While others just took a cab. The boycott went on for 381 days.

This defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

She became icon to racial sagregation.

Rosa Parks was also secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Her and her hosband raymond Parks Where involvedfor many years to improve the African-Americans down in the south.

Parks eventually received many honors. Rosa Parks receives the Congressional Gold Medal from Vice President Al Gore At the age of 92 Rosa Parks had been had been diagnosed with progressive dementia.On October 24, 2005, about 7:00PM Rosa Parks died.The next morning a memorial service was held.

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