Rosa Parks

Card identity :

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on the 4 February 1913 and died on the 24 October 2005. She was 92 years old. She was a seamstress before her event.

She was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". She has received awards such as medals, including the NAACP’s highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, …

Acts + events :

(On Thursday evening December 1, 1955, after a long day of work as a seamstress for a Montgomery, Alabama, department store, Rosa Parks boards a city bus to go home. She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver (following the standard practice of segregation) insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there.)

So the video explains that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat for a white passenger and she was arrested for that and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America because all the blacks in the country didn’t take the bus so if the blacks didn’t take the transport, the economy of the state fall because they were a majority.

My arguments. Why a hero ?

I choose Rosa Parks for my hero because she used his high profile for good causes. Like Martin Luther King she fought against segregation in America and his act in the bus was the starting point of the boycott of the bus of Montgomery. All the blacks were encouraged Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King to fight against segregation by acts like them. Rosa Parks refused the laws about segregation and the blacks didn’t take the bus to go home.

Moreover her act in the bus was very brave and I think that she didn’t refused to give her place maybe that the boycott wasn’t done so she was and she is a hero and an example for all the people. She is an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere too.

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