exposé sur Rosa Parks

« Rosa Parks Intro: Called, “the mother of civil right movement”, Rosa Parks was born on February 1st of 1913 and died on October 24th, 2005.

She is one the most important figures of the American history because of her refusal in the bus in Montgomery which we are going to develop later.

She is an icon of the desegregation and so we’re going to ask ourselves how did Rosa Parks managed to have an influence on black people’s rights and freedom. First, we are going to talk about her childhood and then the act that changed her life and then finally we are going to talk about her legacy. I/Rosa’s Life Rosa Louise Parks was born on Feb 4, 1913, at Tuskegee in Alabama and died on Oct 24, 2005, she was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

The US Congress has honored her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”. Till the age of 10 (1923), she grew up in her grandparents’ farm with her mother.

She recalls her grandfather guarding the front door with a shotgun when the KKK, which stand for the Ku Klux Klan, would march down the street in front of their house because as you know, the KKK is an American white supremacist terrorist group.

Her mom was a teacher, so she taught her the values of freedom and equality.

Sadly, she quickly discovered that it wasn’t true.

In 1915, she went in a school for black people and that was the first time she discovered the inequalities between black and white people. From 1924 to 1934, Rosa studied at the Industrial School for Girls, at Montgomery.

At the same period, she met her husband Raymond Parks who was an activist in the NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people) association which struggle for black people rights.

Unfortunately, her grandmother and mother got sick.

She had to get out of school to take care of them.

In 1932, at only 19 years old Raymond proposed to Rosa, and encourages her to go back to school and finish her studies.

In 1934 Rosa graduated in the Industrial School for Girls and the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes.

Despite all her diplomas, she worked as a seamstress, because no compagnies wanted to hire a black woman for an important job.

Being increasingly committed to black people rights, she tried to register in the electoral lists, however, black people and especially black women didn’t have the right to vote, so she got involved in the NAACP association in 1955. II/an act of courage On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks did something that nobody would’ve thought that would’ve changed the world.

She was just going home after a long hard day of work and sat down on the bus as usual in Montgomery.

The bus driver, with who she already had a history years earlier in 1943 told her immediately to leave her seat for a white man but surprisingly, Rosa didn’t want to give it up.

As the driver told her that he was going to call the police she calmly told him to do so because she wasn’t scared at all.

From that day, she became the symbol of rebellion.

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