A Woman Who Changed Things: Rosa Parks

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“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome” (BrainyQuote.com). No one can change the world by themselves, but they can always make an impact on the world. Rosa Parks, along with others, was one of those people who made an impact on the Civil Rights Movement. She was influenced early in her life, she acted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott; she was affected by the boycott, and had an effect on the Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist early in her life. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents separated when she was at a young age and her mother took her and her family to a town near Montgomery, Alabama to live with her grandparents (Rosa Parks Facts). Rosa’s grandparents were former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality (Rosa Parks Biography). While she lived with her grandparents, she developed strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Rosa Parks Facts). She remembers, in her autobiography, when she was little that her grandfather stood at the front door with a loaded shotgun and watched the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, marched by. This frightened her, but, at the same time, this taught her about the prejudices against African Americans at the time. She also remembers many white people that were kind to her family when she was growing up. This taught her to be aware of the prejudices of most, not all, whites in the South. But she refused to allow that to lessen her attitude towards goodness of mankind (Rosa Parks Facts). She was homeschooled until she was sent to a one-room schoolhouse. Her school often lacked the supplies they needed, like desks. At the time, African American children were not al...

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...ething about the situation and not because she sat back and watched people change the world for her. Rosa Parks is someone people would want to look up too.

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