When Was Rosa Parks Courageous

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What does it mean to be courageous? Well when ever you are courageous you have courage. So that is what Rosa Parks was, she was courageous because she didn´t let noone take her seat. So the next paragraph is going to be about Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was on a bus. She was minding her own business when there was a white person on and did not have a seat. She was choicen to give up her seat but she didn´t she was courageous. On Source 1 it said that, " If an African American passenger was sitting in the row, he or she was expected to give up the seat and stand. This is what Rosa Parks was told to do-and she refused.¨ That is why I say that Rosa Parks is courageous. The next paragraph is going to be about other people that you see everyday are

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