CLANG! The cell door slammed shut! Clink! The officer locked the door leaving Rosa Parks in the darkness of her cell. She had refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, which led her to the big house. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whom the United States Congress called “The First Lady” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement.” Rosa achieved so much, but to fully realize what she did you have to know about her early life, her great accomplishments, and her later life as she continued to work for the “Black People's Rights” across the world. First of all, Rosa Park’s early life was troubling, but was filled with much success. As said at “Academy of Achievement” Rosa Parks was born February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, and her parents, James McCauley who was a carpenter, and Leona McCauley who was a teacher, separated shortly after Rosa’s brother were born in 1915. Later on, at the age of eleven Rosa finally attended the “Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes” because education was important to their family, but she left at the age of sixteen, early in the eleventh grade to help for her dying grandmother, and her ill mother. In addition, at nineteen years of age, Rosa married, Raymond Parks who was a self-educated man for ten years. Raymond worked at NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) which interested Rosa to work there. She later received her high school diploma and joined her husband to work at the NAACP. Unexpectedly, Rosa’s new life would soon become the start of the boycott. Before the boycott, Rosa joined her husband as a secretary at NAACP, and worked quietly for many years at instead of becoming a teacher like her mother. As said at “History.com” Rosa worked with many cases to help people in need, many were about murder, theft, and rape. Rosa and Jonnie Carr were the only women who attended meetings at NAACP other than the occasional Mrs. Nixion who was married to Mr.Nixion, the Pullman porter. Most of the members at NAACP were black and only a few white men, but it was dangerous for anyone to work there. Rosa wanted to help at NAACP because she
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Rosa climbed on the bus, which was full with over 70% black people, to go home from work after a long and tiring day. The bus began to get more and more crowded, and as some white men got on the bus the driver ordered four black people to stand up and let the white’s take their seat. Each black person stood up, except for one, and that one person was Rosa Parks. Once she refused to give up her seat a policeman was called to the bus and they arrested Rosa. This was how the boycott began. After Rosa spent less then one day in jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the new Montgomery Improvement Association. The association called for a boycott of the city-owned bus company and it lasted 381 days. The Supreme Court ended up outlawing racial segregation on public transportation, which caused for celebration around the world. Rosa’s choice changed the life of many people just on her way
Rosa climbed on the bus, which was full with over 70% black people, to go home from work after a long and tiring day. The bus began to get more and more crowded, and as some white men got on the bus the driver ordered four black people to stand up and let the white’s take their seat. Each black person stood up, except for one, and that one person was Rosa Parks. Once she refused to give up her seat a policeman was called to the bus and they arrested Rosa. This was how the boycott began. After Rosa spent less then one day in jail, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the new Montgomery Improvement Association. The association called for a boycott of the city-owned bus company and it lasted 381 days. The Supreme Court ended up outlawing racial segregation on public transportation, which caused for celebration around the world. Rosa’s choice changed the life of many people just on her way