African-American activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama transport caused one of the biggest bus boycott controversy. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to withhold the law requiring isolation on city transports. Rosa Parks receive numerous honors among her lifetime, including the NAACP 's most female courage honor. Rosa Parks ' adolescence carried her initial encounters with racial segregation and activism for racial balance.
Meanwhile her parents divorced, Rosa 's mom moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her folks, Rose and Sylvester Edwards both previous slaves and solid promoters for racial equity; the family …show more content…
Being the most talked about is this one where she states “People always say that I didn 't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn 't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” She proclaims that she was burnt out and tired of being any less equal than the white man. She explains that she was not physically tired, but more so mentally drained. Rosa was tired of being underestimated and felt that the change started with her. She clears up what people may have thought and/or things that may have been said about why she refused to give her seat up. Being tired of giving in to an equal party, Rosa politely and peacefully refused to move to the back of the …show more content…
But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” She is stating that even though the laws have changed the problems has not. Everyday blacks still/will face the same adversity as yesterday, because the problem has been addressed but not taken away. She feels that it us up to parents to prepare their kids for the problems they will face in society. Prepare them for what they have no choice but to see. Make them strong enough to tackle it and move past it so it don’t come as a surprise. She makes it clear that one-day change will come. One day blacks will overcome the struggle and problem they face in society. She was very optimistic and hopeful in the future of the
Meanwhile her parents divorced, Rosa 's mom moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her folks, Rose and Sylvester Edwards both previous slaves and solid promoters for racial equity; the family …show more content…
Being the most talked about is this one where she states “People always say that I didn 't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn 't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” She proclaims that she was burnt out and tired of being any less equal than the white man. She explains that she was not physically tired, but more so mentally drained. Rosa was tired of being underestimated and felt that the change started with her. She clears up what people may have thought and/or things that may have been said about why she refused to give her seat up. Being tired of giving in to an equal party, Rosa politely and peacefully refused to move to the back of the …show more content…
But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” She is stating that even though the laws have changed the problems has not. Everyday blacks still/will face the same adversity as yesterday, because the problem has been addressed but not taken away. She feels that it us up to parents to prepare their kids for the problems they will face in society. Prepare them for what they have no choice but to see. Make them strong enough to tackle it and move past it so it don’t come as a surprise. She makes it clear that one-day change will come. One day blacks will overcome the struggle and problem they face in society. She was very optimistic and hopeful in the future of the