Recognizing advocacy in history
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
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Rosa Louise McCauley is a famous African American, civil rights movement activist. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama and died on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks is very famous for what she did for what she did on a bus on December 1, 1995, in Cleveland avenue. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger so she got arrested for not giving up her seat. She didn't give up her seat because she was tired, it was because she was tired of giving in for the white people.
How Rosa Parks was an advocate for her movement
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On December 1, 1995, after a herd day at work at Montgomery department, where Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress, she rode a bus in Cleveland avenue bus home. She sat on the seat in the first several rows designated "colored" passengers. Montgomery bus drivers had a rule that black passengers had to give up their seats for the white passengers, when no seats were available. If a black passenger refused, then the bus driver had the authority to call the police to remove them. As the bus was moving station to station, the bus was getting full and there were 4 white passengers standing, so the bus driver told Rosa Parks and 3 other black passengers to give up their seats and the 3 passengers did, but Rosa Parks didn't. She told the bus driver that she was tired of giving in for the white people, so the bus driver called the police and Rosa Parks was taken to headquarters because she got arrested, but she got released on bail. The day that Rosa Parks got arrested, E.D. Nixon was planning a boycott on the Montgomery busses. The black people were boycotting so the bus drivers couldn't earn as much money . There were a lot of violation during the boycott and some African- Americans even got arrested, but later on, the busses allowed everyone to sit equally in the busses. The busses were finally public thanks to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and E.D. Nixon.
How I can apply what Rosa Parks did to my life
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If I was her at that time, I would've been very scared if I was her, but she was brave. When I read the things Rosa Parks did, I had the courage to do anything to do what is right and fix it. If someone is getting bullied, I would stand up to them because just watching is not right and if someone is scared, I can help them by supporting them. I think I would do anything that is right to help people.