Rosa+Parks

Born: February 4,1913 Died: October 24, 2005 U.S. Congress gave her the name //"Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement"// Whites owned nearly all of the automobiles in town. Blacks depended on city buses for transportation. On the evening of December 1, 1955 a woman named Rosa Parks left her place of employment at her normal time. She then boarded the Montgomery bus for her ride home. Parks walked to the back of the bus and took a seat just behind the section marked “Whites only”. She sat down, she was very tired and her feet were aching from working all day long. The bus filled up and two white passengers got on the bus. The bus driver asked the black people to get up and give up their seats to the whites. And Rosa Parks refused. She then got arrested and thrown into jail. Blacks protested the arrest by boycotting the buses. The fifties may have been marred by racism and the threat of many people. But many Americans floated through those years. On a cloud of prosperity and family values. in my opinion this is an example of nationalism due to the fact of a peson's race Rosa Parks was black and was discriminated against the whites. Everyone should be treated equally without being made fun of or not being liked becaus eof their color. We all are equal and we should all be treated equally. She has had and will have a long lasting legacy worldwide.
 * // [[image:225px-Rosaparks.jpg align="left"]][[image:br0119s.jpg width="222" height="208" align="left"]]ROSA PARKS SPARKS A BUS  //** **//  BOYCOTT!!!  //**

By: Roxana V.