Rosa Parks: Mother Of The Freedom Movement

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Rosa Parks was an activist for black citizens. I am writing about her because I think what she did for Civil Rights is important. Rosa Parks was called “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. What makes her a very important women, is that she stood up for what she believed in by not moving from the white area of a bus. This act changed freedom for colored people ever since.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was married to Raymond Parks, but never had any children. Rosa had one younger brother named Sylvester McCauley. She grew up in Montgomery Alabama, with her mom and dad until they separated when she was 13. Rosa attended an all girl school. For most of her life, she had illnesses which made her a very small child. Jim crows was a man who enforced laws for black people, …show more content…

The police came and arrested her, although she was not put into jail. From then on, people in the black community. Because of her arrest, she was fired from her job as a seamstress. She met with civil rights leaders like Edgar Nixon, and even Martin Luther King Jr. They made plans on what they could do to stop segregation. She moved to detroit and worked on the black power movement and was an African American representative. Parks received national recognition, including the NAACP's 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional gold Medal. At the end of her life, she suffered from dementia and died on October 24th.
I’m writing about Rosa Parks because I have a lot of African American friends, and I know that if she did not take that step to stop segregation, I would not be able to hang out with them. I also know that their family would be treated differently than they are being treated now.
All in all, Rosa Parks made big steps to stop segregation and make civil

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