Rosa Parks Courage

In the 20th Century, did anyone fought for their civil rights or started a movement to help gain their civil rights? During the time when segregation law was still in active, color and whites had separating things: water fountain, seats, tables, etc. The Segregation law was enforcing in most part of the U.S. including south part of the nation. Color people had to go through the back door of a restaurant in order to get something to eat or sit at the back of the bus to ride the bus. Whoever didn’t follow the law were not serve or arrested by policemen right away without any rights. Color had to sit in a separate spot away from the whites, which means that color people had terrible spots. For an example, color had to eat in the kitchen of the …show more content…
Rosa had affected everyone including color people that they shouldn’t be controlled be every people. Over the years, Rosa Parks became a national symbol of strength in the struggle of racial segregation.
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, were Rosa family values education. Rosa has a younger brother who was born in 1915, a mother who was a teacher, and a father who was a carpenter. Rosa parent was separated leaving her mom to take care of her and her brother. When Rosa was young she didn’t attend school but was home school by her mom. During Rosa childhood, the Jim Crow Law affected Rosa, which segregates the white from the colors. Rosa Park attended high school at the age 11 but left high school at the age 16 to take care of her sick grandmother. Rosa also witnesses a KKK group with her grandparents when she was young. Parks tried several times to register to vote but was denied because she failed the literacy test. When Rosa was 19 years old, she married Raymond Parks, a self-educated man who worked as a barber and was a long-time member of the NAACP or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. On December 1943, Rosa joined the Montgomery …show more content…
On October 24, 2005, when Rosa Parks was 92 years old, she quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan by dementia (memory loss). Rosa husband Raymond and mother Leona buried her body at Detroit’s Woodlawn Cemetery. Shortly after her death, Woodlawn Cemetery renamed the chapel to Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel. Back then the nation has not fully honored the life of Rosa Parks but the nation still has ways to go to fully honor her. Rosa Park's body was placed where everyone can visit and pay their respect for her for what she did for them. At the National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol, there is a statue of Rosa. This statue display Rosa sitting on a rock-like formation of which she seems almost a part, symbolizing her refusal to give up her bus seat in