Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks was born on 4 february 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama and died on october 24th 2005. She was (and still is) an iconic figure who fought for the black community’s rights. She became famous when she refused to give up her seat to a white man . Rosa Parks was arrested and fined 15 dollars . She was the starting point to the bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama.

Bus boycott and civil rights movement

On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger as asked by the bus driver,James Blake and was arrested. She unintentionally provoked a bus boycott in all of Montgomery. Rosa Parks helped raise  awareness to black people’s  struggle for civil rights. After this event, she joined the United State House Representatives.

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Rosa Parks:
“People say that I refused to give up my seat because I was tired, but that's not true. I was not physically tired, or no more than usual at the end of a day's work. I was not old, while some give me the image of an old woman. I was 42 years old. No, the only fatigue I had was giving up.”

     The Segregation

Rosa Parks lived during a very dark period of U.S history. While slavory was abolished racial tensions were extremely intense, especially in the south where black people would get assaulted over anything ( the kkk was a very influential group in these states), the buses , toilets , cinemas or any public place was concerned by segregeation and was often separate for black and whites (white infrastructures were way better)

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