Personal Backstory
Born 1913, Rosa Parks was an African-American activist for the Civil Rights movement. A seamstress and an officer for the NAACP, she often protested against everyday segregation. For example, she refused to use segregated drinking fountains and elevators. Parks began her activism in the Civil Rights Movement when she began working as a secretary of the Montgomery division of the NAACP in 1943. But her fights for equality did not stop there.
What was going in her Time
During the time Rosa Parks became more involved in the Civil Rights Movement, things began to change. The Brown vs Board of Education case was setteled and outlawed segregation in schools. Four days following the Brown vs Board of Education decision, the mayor of Montgomery was asked to desegregate the Bus system, but he refused. This set the stage for Rosa Parks' famous protest!
The Protest
Rose Parks disagreed with the mayors decision and was not afraid to show it. On December 1st, 1955, Ms Parks sat in the colored on a crowded Montgomery bus. When a white man requested to be seated away from any African-Americans, Ms Parks and her friends were asked to vacate the rows and move to the back of the bus. Ms Parks refused to comply and to let her herself to be treated as a second class citizen. She remained in her seat. Parks was then arrested for her "act of disobiedence".
As news of her arrest spread, leaders of the African-American community started the Montgomery Improvement Association, headed by a young Martin Luther King, Jr. He and other leaders like Jo Ann Robinson and NAACP leader E.D. Nixon planned a boycott on the bus system. They planned car pooling and had people walk instead of drive for 381 days. Support from the United Auto Workers, Montgomery's Jewish Community, and sympathetic White southerners lead to the 1956 outlaw of bus segregation by the Supreme Court.
Later Life
Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement, and both gained and suffered from her position. She was often fired from jobs by racist store owners, for example. Later, she worked in Congress as a secretary. She died of progressive dementia on October 24, 2005 and was given a 7 hour long funeral for her meritous life before her burial at Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery.
Cat Volpe
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4 comments:
Fantastic! Amazing! I absolutely adore how you've split the summary into little segments so as to satisfy people with ADD if they choose to read this article. Marvelous. Good summary too, by the way.
Very easily readable; I like how each of the paragraphs cover a separate aspect of Rosa Parks's life. It's great that your summary not only explains how Rosa Parks became involved in civil rights, but also what happened to her and the civil rights movement after her protest on the bus. Well done!
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Very well written. It's easy to follow along and understand all the content by the way you broke it up and the way you worded everything. Great job highlighting the key points about Rosa Parks!
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