How Did Rosa Parks Change

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“ Rosa Parks- Her life-changing bus ride “

Do you ever think that if someone didn’t make a move during the time of segregation, we might still have black and white water fountains? Well, thanks to Rosa Parks, we don’t have that anymore. Rosa Parks made significant changes during the civil rights movement. So much that she is sometimes called the “ mother of the modern day civil rights movement “. Rosa Parks(McCauley) was born February 14th 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She had to go to segregated schools her whole life and when she finally graduated high school, she married Raymond Parks, given her the new last name everyone knows. She lived in Montgomery Alabama and worked as a seamstress in a department store. Sadly she died October 24th, 2005. But, her movement was before that. Now, why was her change so important? On December 1st in 1955, Rosa Parks had just finished a long day at her seamstress job in a Montgomery department store. She got on the bus like she normally did everyday after work to come home. Black people were sectioned off to the back. They would pay their fare in the front and then board on the back. When more white people came they would have to move further and further back. Rosa went to the back and sat in the seat closest to the white section but still in the colored section. As more white people
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After he arrest the black people of Montgomery organized a boycott of the bus system in Montgomery, this was called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A boycott is a protest of a certain thing and the boycotters won’t use that thing. In this case blacks and other races who sympathized the blacks wouldn’t use the buses and protested them. The boycott lasted a total 381 days which is 1 year and 16 days. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the spokesperson for this bus boycott. This was very important because this was one step closer to fighting