Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks

• There wasn't much I could do except struggle on.
  There were times when it would have been easy to
  just fall apart or to go the opposite direction,
  but somehow I felt that if I took one more step
  someone would come along to join me.
• -Rosa Parks
• By Taylor Turner

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F.A.Q.Frequently asked questions

• 1.) Q What were Rosa Parks interests when she
  was little?
• A Reading novels from school, cleaning school
  rooms, learning and going to school.
• 2.) Q Was she picked on or teased when she was
  little?
• A Yes, when she was in the 3rd or 4th grade she
  got picked on by a white kid everyday on the way
  to the bus stop.
• 3.) Q did she have a good supporting family at
  home?
• A Her mom and grandma were always their to
  encourage her to follow her dreams and to live a
  great life but her dad walked out on them when
  she was just a little girl.
• 4.) QWhen was she born? When did she die?
• A Rosa parks was born February, 4th 1913 in
  Tuskegee Alabama.
• Died October 24th 2005 in Detroit Michigan.
• 5.) Q How has her mom and dads breakup effected
  her life?
• A Her dad left her and her brother when she was
  very little so it didn't have as much of an
  effect on her life until she began growing up
  without a dad. But with her being as strong as
  she is she managed it.

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L.K.F. Little known facts

• She was married to Raymond Parks who died of
  natural causes in 1977.
• When Rosa Parks was a little girl she attended
  Montgomery industrial school for girls, Booker
  .T. Washington high school, and Alabama state
  college
• She never had any kids.
• She only had a mother a little brother and her
  grandmother to influence her while she was
  growing up.
• After her death, her casket was placed in the
  Rotunda of the United States Capitol for two
  days, so the nation could pay its respects to the
  woman whose courage had changed the lives in so
  many ways.

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Life lessons paragraph

• Rosa parks was not only a hard working little
  girl but she was a magnificent lady who took a
  great step that most whites wouldnt even dream
  of, which was to end segregation once and for
  all. It all started when Rosa was about 10 or 11
  when her and her little brother, Sylvester, were
  on their way to the bus stop when they ran into a
  white boy, the same white boy who had picked on
  her and called her names she didnt like. Well,
  the boy first raised a fist at Sylvester and then
  Rosa realized what was going on. At that point
  she realized that whites began to pick on blacks
  and that something big was going to happen. So
  she knew what she had to do right then and there.
  
• She spoke in a strong voice and showed the
  little boy that color doesnt matter. She spent
  her whole summer working in cotton fields ripping
  at her fingers though she never stopped working
  till she was done. When she got to the 7th grade
  her mom paid for her to go to the Montgomery's
  Industrial school for girls. She had to not only
  make perfect grades but she had to clean
  classrooms and dedicate her time to help out the
  teachers. Then came the famous bus rally not only
  did she refuse to give up her seat to a white
  man, she ended segregation by taking one of the
  biggest steps in are life's

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• to make blacks and whites equal.
• This step was taken by an African American woman
  standing up for what was right. According to the
  old saying some people are born to greatness,
  and some have greatness thrust upon them.
  Greatness was certainly thrust upon Rosa Parks.

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Accomplishments/ Achievements

• She started the movement of segregation by the
  bus rally
• She got the first international freedom conductor
  award.
• Shes encouraged many people in this world today
  to stand up for what is right and to be open to
  share you opinion to others.
• She made it through her life with being picked on
  and with out a dad to love. So she showed
  everyone how strong she really was.

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Connections to Me

• Rosa Parks was a strong courageous woman, a
  woman, that many people wished they could be
  like. she stood up for what was right and
  believed that everyone was the same on the
  inside. Knowing that it didnt matter what you
  looked liked on the outside, all that mattered
  was who you were on the inside. If I could turn
  out like anyone in the world that I wanted to be,
  it would be Rosa parks she has inspired me and
  many others. Me and her are alike because we are
  both some what are protective of us, are friends,
  and everyone else. We both believe in everyone
  having a fair chance at anything and everything.
  By us both wanting everyone to be able to follow
  out their own dreams not what some law says were
  to do, but for everyone to be treated the same
  and all have a fair chance of becoming who we
  really are.

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Bibliography
The only tired i was, was tired of given
in. -Rosa parks

• 1.) Website Scdiscus.org/school.html
• Article title Rosa Parks
• Name of publication notable black woman book 1
• Author N/A
• Date of publication 1992
• 2.) website Scdiscus.org/school.html
• Article title Rosa Parks
• Name of publication biography resource center
• Author Thomas Gale
• Date of publication 2006
• 3.) website Scdiscus.org/school.html
• Article title Rosa Parks
• Name of publication St. James encyclopedia of
  popular culture
• Author St. James press
• Date of publication 2000