Essay On Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley was a african american women who helped fight for equal rights in Alabama. Who later on got arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat for a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation and becoming an civil rights activist.

Rosa parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on february 4, 1913 to parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Rosa park’s mother was a school teacher and her father a carpenter. In her childhood years she spent much of the time sick, and as result, she was a small child. Her parents Leon and james later on separated and her mother took her and her brother to move to pine level, a town adjacent to Montgomery, Alabama. There Rosa spent the rest of her childhood on her grandparents’ farm.

Her childhood life in Montgomery helped her to develop strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Rosa didn’t attend a public school until she turned eleven. Before that, she was homeschooled by her mother Leona who was a teacher. At the age eleven she attended the Industrial school for girls in Montgomery, in school rosa parks took various vocational and academic courses. Later on she began laboratory school for her secondary education, but eventually she never completed her school year because she had to drop out of school to take care of her ailing grandmother.

During the rest of her childhood she was greatly influenced by the “Jim Crow Laws”, which separated the whites and the blacks in most part of their daily lives, meaning that these two groups of people couldn’t drink from the same water fountains, use the same public bathrooms or use the same transportation. Everything was separated and for the two groups. For children of the ...

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... rights movement. She has also been called “The Patron saint”. Rosa was and will be remembered to all of us for the change of the nation for the freedom of the African Americans in the southern estates.

On september 9, 1996 Rosa parks was awarded by president Bill Clinton a medal of freedom, the highest honor award by the U.S executive branch. At the age of 92 on october 24, 2005 Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in detroit, Michigan since she was diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was remarked by several memorial services, among many of them lying in the state at the capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an amount of 50,000 people viewed her casket.

Rosa was interred between her husband Raymond and her mother leona at the detroit’s woodlawn Cemetery.On February 4th, 2013 marked what had been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday.