Rosa Louise McCartney Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, Her parents were Leona McCartney and James McCartney and Rosa only had one sibling and that was his little brother, Sylvester James McCartney. Rosa was an American activist during the Civil Rights movement Rosa Parks is known for her struggle for racial equality. On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman known as Rosa Parks took a seat on the bus on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress As she took her seat on the bus, they told her to get up of her seat to let a white men sit. When she refused to get up, they threatened her that they would call the police. Still, Rosa Parks wasn’t scared so continued sitting Then they called the police and when the police came, they took her to jail. Rosa Parks was in jail for only a couple of hours when Civil Rights leader E. D. Nixon bailed her out of jail, joined by white friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia.
Rosa Parks’s goal was to make a difference in the world with racial equality because she was tired of people telling her what to do, not to mention she got bossed around. But in the end, she made so many achievements, like sparking the Montgomery movement, inspiring the civil rights movements, engaging in civil rights activism beyond Montgomery, and many more that we are thankful for to this day.
The importance of civil rights was to protect us from unfair treatment and discrimination in all facets of life. Ms. Durham said, “It was important because there was so much discrimination for so long, and it brought the issue to the forefront of society.” In this sense, a lot of people have been judged for how they look, and people decide to stand up for themselves because it is not fair to treat other people for how they look. Mr. Lightning, the principal at Bowling Green Junior High, said. “I just think Rosa Parks was an instrumental person in the bus boycott movement again; that was a very critical part of the civil rights movement in terms of African Americans gaining rights again. I think that she inspired the young generation that came after her to continue to fight and to do what was right for others.
To wrap it up, in the end, she made a difference for African Americans by boycotting 17,000 black citizens, which we won’t forget, and I am sure they won’t forget the boycott of Rosa Park. For that, we will always be extremely grateful.