National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

been many people in history that have taken a stand in history. Today we have chosen our topic to be Rosa Parks, an amazing hero in our Earth’s history. Rosa Parks wasn’t only a hero she was also a strong leader and a great person. Rosa Parks was an african american that took a stand by sitting down on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa took a stand for equal rights for african americans and white people. Not only did she give hope to people that needed it she also gave courage to people that…

CORE were highly active during the civil movement. Members of CORE were responsible of organizing historic protests such as sit-ins, Montgomery bus boycott, and freedom riders. Although many American citizens were silent during this tough time for people of color, others found their voice through protesting acts of prejudice. They were motivated by the hate around them to bring change. One of the biggest signs of progress occurred on May 1954. This was the day the case of Brown v Board of…

someone lower. Ruby Bates was a poor young millwork in Huntsville her mother was a prostitute and her father was a drunk with no job. Ruby’s family lived in a small shack in the black community of Huntsville. The Bates family were they only white people on the block. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird one of the characters is named Mayella…

with a system of written and unwritten laws in America that kept them oppressed and made it nearly impossible to control their destiny’s. Shortly after slavery ended, many black leaders arose that had differing strategies for how African American people could strategically achieve equality in the United States. Booker. T Washington, the most influential black leader of his time,…

appropriate section of the bus. This act really influenced people around her the were colored. I feel by me evidence and research that Rosa parks was the one to influence society about civil rights. Some might say that Martin Luther King Jr. influenced society because of his “I Have a Dream” speech, but I believe that Rosa Parks did because of all of the reasons to support my claim. One reason is that she did something to influence all colored people, another reason is that she was trained to be…

rights act. (Jackson). She even started to work closely with President Nixon in 1943. (“Rosa Parks”). From all of her success, she was awarded many medals and honors. She was the 1st African American to have a body size, statue at the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, along with presidents and military leaders. The U.S. postal service has even honored her with a stamp of the 100th year anniversary and she was also honored with the congressional medal of freedom. Rosa Parks even has a section in…

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. She was of African ancestry, though one of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a slave of Native American descent. She was small as a child and suffered poor health with chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a…

convenient for the people. In 1895, Booker T. Washington, an African-American leader presented a powerful speech before a predominately…

Basic Details of Movie Character Her name is Annie Wilkes. She is of the age of her late 30s. She is born and raised in Bakersfield, environmentally on a farm. When she was a child, she had a wealthy family with parents who are Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes. Her father was a banker. After her father’s death, she was brought up in a church. Extremely well educated young lady and she went to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Nursing. I picked these up from the movie at 1:13:13 time.…

movements in the United Sates to Parks bus boycott on December 1, 1955. On this date, a young Rosa Parks was to change history forever by refusing to give her seat up to a Caucasian passenger on the bus, and move to the back of the bus amongst the other people of colour. Parks young and tired from her hard labour as a seamstress, remained in her seat, despite the bus driver asking her to move. She was arrested and fined for her brave act, under the jurisdiction that she was violating a city…