Rosa Parks Research Paper

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Rosa Parks

Rosa parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents are James McCauley and Leona McCauley her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. Rosa's parents got a divorce when she was still young and she stayed with her mother and her brother and they went to live on her grandparents farm. When Rosa Parks was 11 she enrolled to an all girls school, it was a private school and it was founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. Rosa Parks was a child who grew up in a world that had segregation, she couldn't just go somewhere that had white people. They have an all whites school and then they have an all colored school and of course Rosa stayed in the all colored school. Rosa
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After a long day of work I'm waiting on the bus boycott and I get a seat, It was one of the first colored seats. The bus is segregation which means all whites sit in the front and all blacks sit in the back. A few stops later a white man gets on the bus and the bus was getting full, the white man had nowhere to sit, the bus driver ordered that I move out of my seat for the white man to sit down, but I refused. I didn't refuse because I was tired, I refused because i'm tired of segregation, i'm tired of having to come last because someone thinks white people deserve it more. If I was on the bus first then shouldn't the white man stand up instead? The bus driver wanted us to clear 4 rows that way if anymore white people, get on the bus then they will have a place to sit and we just stand up. The other three rows obeyed the bus driver and moved but I didn't. The bus driver's name was James F. Blake and he was white so of course he took the white man's side. That day I was put in jail for refusing to let the white man sit in my spot and make me stand up. In my head I was thinking why should I move for a white man to sit down? Why should I have to stand up? I was here first, i've been waiting for the bus and I just got done working hard. Luckily my husband bailed me out of jail so that I didn't have to stay the night, four days later I was found guilty for disobeying the