Christina Steinke
From the front of the bus, to the back
During the 1800 and 1900 hundreds many events where occurring in America, but a huge one that made an impact is what was happening in the south. The Civil Rights Movement affected America a great deal back then and still does today on how we look at history. Rosa Parks and Martin Lutheran King are two great people who come to my mind and the impact they made. Rosa Parks was one of the most significant women, during the movement that had changed not only the south but America it’s self. She made a huge impact as a woman in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Women were rarely respected during the “The Civil Rights Movement,” but Rosa parks made a huge difference that not only transformed our society in the world but the way we look at race. The place and way Parks grew up, affected her point of view on segregation and the events taking place during the “The Civil Rights Movement” like the bus boycott.
Rosa Parks was raised as Rosa McCauley in Alabama in the beginning of the 1900’s.Growing up in the south as an African- American wasn’t a good thing back then due to the events taking place. Rosa was a colored woman who had Indian and white in her heritage but never let many know that about her. While she attended grade school in Montgomery, Rosa joined a private school called “Miss White’s school,” that was created by liberal women from the north to teach black girls domestic skills and academic subjects.When attending the school Parks said “What she learned best in school was she herself, was a person with dignity and self-respect and she should not set her sights lower than anybody else just because she was black.” (pg 96) Rosa had dropped out of high school for a few years due to her grandmother getting ill and got a job at a shirt factory. A few years later Rosa attended Alabama State College and At the age of nineteen, she married a barber Raymond Parks and both of them joined the NAACP together. The NAACP was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, and together they made an effort as one to improve segregation on a serious level locally. With Rosa being a part of the NAACP and working with this organization, it helped her make a choice, many years ago on a bus in Montgomery that today she is still very well-known for.
