By: Darya Ali

ROSA PARKS

Rosa Parks was an African-American woman she also was  a very brave woman and she stood up for what she believed in. She was born  on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Rosa’s birth name is Rosa Louise McCauley and she spent most of her life working as a seamstress.

On December 1,1955 Miss Rosa Parks got on a bus, she paid the money and sat down. Later a white man got on the bus. Rosa had to give up her seat to the white man under the law, but she said no. She would give up her seat to a kid or an older person without any problems, but she was tired of how she and the other African-American people were treated. So then she was arrested. Rosa’s arrest and trial was a 381-day bus boycott. And then finally the Supreme Court ruling  in the year of November 1956 

From then she was known as the black woman arrested in 1995 for defying segregation laws.

Rosa Parks went to Alabama state college and she was awarded lots of awards such as

 The NAACP’S Spingarn medal in 1970,the Martin Luther king Jr. Award in 1980,the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest honor in 1999,the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and an honorary degree from SHAW College.

Rosa Park had the job of serving as a secretary of the NAACP  and after advisor to the NAACP Youth Council.

Rosa had some quotes such as memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others and our mistreatment was not right, and I was tired of it.

Rosa Parks spends most of her day filled with reading mail from student, politicians and people like me or you. She goes to see people in the hospital and does some other things too.

Now she has a Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute  for Self-Development, it has a special program called Pathways to Freedom. It’s for pre-teens and teens from the age of 11 to 18.

Rosa was attacked by a  young  man in August 1994,for her money. She was in the safety of her home. She wrote I pray for this young man and  the conditions of our country that made him that way. Despite the violence and crime in our society , we should not let fear overwhelm us. We must remain strong.

Rosa believes in her religion and god in everything she does, from the beginning to the end, from the orange peel to the tender fruit inside, from the persons head to their feet.

Rosa says she hopes to impart: ”I’d like for [readers] to know that I had a very spiritual background and that I believe in church and my faith and that has helped to give me the strength and courage to live as I did.”

    As I said in the beginning Rosa Parks is a very brave woman.