The Girl With a Dream...
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Rosa Parks was a women with intelligence, and determination. She was loving, caring, and had respect for other people. However, Rosa Parks was arrested, and fined for ``violating city ordinance.` On December 1, 1955, Rosa was arrested because she refused to give up her seat on a bus, to a white human being.
Growing up, Rosa lived in the small town of Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley, who was a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, who was a teacher. It was at the age of 11 when Rosa Parks was enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which was a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. Even though opportunities for African Americans were scarce back then, Rosa was brilliant, and well educated. There were no civil rights, it was simply just a matter of survival. Rosa wanted to prepare herself for whatever was going to be thrown at her in the future. She ended up going to Teachers College, at Alabama State. She married Raymond Parks, and started living in Montgomery. Both of them worked together in the NAACP to improve the rights of African Americans in the South.
The bus incident, where Rosa refused to give up her seat brought much awareness to the fact that African Americans no longer wished to be treated as second class people. Rosa felt as if she was not alone in her fight for freedom, and her goal was to bring more attention of the segregation, and racial discrimination occuring. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created, which was led by Dr. Martin Luther King. This associtation wanted to boycott the city-owned bus company, which successfully lasted for 382 days. This spread awareness all over the world, however the Supreme Court struck down the Association, and once again Rosa was fined. Rosa Parks moved on to get the annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award, and also recieved the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. For the rest of time, Rosa would be an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere, and never be forgotten for the hardwork she did to end public segregation.
Growing up, Rosa lived in the small town of Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley, who was a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, who was a teacher. It was at the age of 11 when Rosa Parks was enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which was a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. Even though opportunities for African Americans were scarce back then, Rosa was brilliant, and well educated. There were no civil rights, it was simply just a matter of survival. Rosa wanted to prepare herself for whatever was going to be thrown at her in the future. She ended up going to Teachers College, at Alabama State. She married Raymond Parks, and started living in Montgomery. Both of them worked together in the NAACP to improve the rights of African Americans in the South.
The bus incident, where Rosa refused to give up her seat brought much awareness to the fact that African Americans no longer wished to be treated as second class people. Rosa felt as if she was not alone in her fight for freedom, and her goal was to bring more attention of the segregation, and racial discrimination occuring. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created, which was led by Dr. Martin Luther King. This associtation wanted to boycott the city-owned bus company, which successfully lasted for 382 days. This spread awareness all over the world, however the Supreme Court struck down the Association, and once again Rosa was fined. Rosa Parks moved on to get the annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award, and also recieved the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. For the rest of time, Rosa would be an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere, and never be forgotten for the hardwork she did to end public segregation.