Sam;Rosa+Parks

Rosa Parks
Biography of Rosa Parks- http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

Rosa was born February 4, 1913, and Died October 24, 2005. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In December of 1932 she married her husband Raymond Parks. On December 1, 1955 she was arrested for not giving her seat to a white person on the bus she was riding. " I got on the bus to go home, I didnt get on the bus to get arrested." Rosa's courageous acts changed American and the veiw of colored people. After Rosa was arrested, black people of Montgomery and people of other races organized and promoted a boycott of the city bus line that lasted 381 days. Rosa was the main leader of the Bus Boycott. Rosa Parks received more than forty-three honorary doctorate degrees throught out her lifetime. She was voted by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most Influential people of the 20th century. A Museum and Library was built in her honor, in Montgomery, Alabama.



I think the importance of learning about my topic was good because now i know how segregation happened and how it ended. Before this, i didnt even know what Segregation meant and all i knew was white people used to not like black people. This topic has helped me learn how wrong that was.