Rosa Parks
- First Name: Rosa
- Last Name: Parks
Rosa Luise Parks was an african-american civil rights activist. She was called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" by the U.S. Congress. She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother Leona Edwards was a teacher and her father James McCauley was a carpenter
She suffered as a child being very small even for her age and had chronic tonsillitis. Park's autobiography recounts that some of her earliest memories are of the kindness of white strangers, but given her situation it was impossible to ingore the racism.
The beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States on December 1 1955, thanks to a black woman that refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance and her act of defiance didn't go unnoticed, she began a movement that ended the legal racism in america, she became an inspiration to all people worldwide.
Personal Quotes
"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."
"Each person must live their life as a model for others."
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
"I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen."
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
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