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Think back to any moment in your life where you had to make a choice: to go along with the crowd or to rise above, be different, and make a change.

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Freedom. A word misunderstood by many, resulting in consequences for others. Some say that Rosa Parks was the face of the civil rights movement, a movement for freedom, others argue Claudette

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revitalization of the Civil Rights movement,the flint and steel of the passion fueled flame that could only be quenched by equal rights and caused repercussions felt to this day? The answer----Rosa Parks.

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It's 1956 in Montgomery,Alabama,and every bus is nearly vacant as a result of the famous Montgomery Bus boycott,which aimed to secure equal rights for African-Americans and end segregation. However,months ago,the buses were chock full of both races segregated into halves for white and colored people. What caused this sudden

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Imagine being told that you had to give up your seat on the bus to someone else just because of the color of your skin. Imagine how frustrating that would be. Some people, like Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, decided to defy the rules and stay in their seat when they were told to move for a white person.

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Imagine, dedicating your whole life to fighting for not only your freedom, but the freedom of many others. Dedicating your whole life to your cause, only to be remembered as the activist who gave up her seat first and not much else.

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Imagine for a second the Rosa Parks never stayed seated on that fateful day on December 1, 1955, imagine that, like most colored people, Rosa Parks had given up her seat and allowed herself to be discriminated against.

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Imagine living through a hardship in where respect of you and your race was smaller than the $.68 cent salary.

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Imagine having all these building and statues built for you, having your name plastered all over the state and even the country because of standing up for what you believe is right.

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What is the point of segregation? What is the point of racism? Two women , Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, showed the world that these actions are unjust.

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For one minute imagine being a mother…………….but for 42,000 African Americans that were segregated just because of the color of their skin. Now you can get a sense of what it felt like to be the distinguished Rosa Parks.

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When someone says "Rosa Parks”, what comes to mind? A Black woman who stood up to segregation on buses? A civil rights leader? A woman recognized for her contributions to minorities? Rosa Parks was all of this and much more. Her contributions to the civil rights movement were very significant and her impact for the riddance of social injustices were greater than that of Claudette Colvin.

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# Team Rosa Parks
Imagine Rosa Parks never stood up against against the police and never said no to the white man that wanted her seat.

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Have you ever invested your entire being into a cause despite the danger and challenges that could occur?

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Picture yourself making a speech on a Montgomery bus seeking for freedom, soon causing unification between races. Well this is what Claudette Colvin caused and she was a great leader standing up for her race.

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Have you ever stood up in something that you really deeply believed in? An idea so reckless, yet close to your heart,  that you don't care how much trouble you get into, as long as this action makes a point and makes a change.

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Can you picture a community of followers arguing that their person had a greater impact than the opposition, and reality being biased because that individual was more decent? Well, that is one deciding factor being upheld when looking back during the Colvin-Parks era. Where social oppression on African Americans was enforced and freedom from segregation was begged for. A common desire was present, but a division between both Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks as in which one was most effective on freedom also popped in.

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Would you be upset if you fought so hard to end something and actually ended it, but you were still lost to a day in history?

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Imagine a world of seperation, one that demonstrates war between discrimination and freedom. This war has been won by Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

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Imagine giving up everything you had to fight for your freedom only to be remembered in history as another blurry face. This is what Claudette Colvin, an African American activist, felt after she dedicated her life to the Montgomery bus boycott and found herself blocked by the light and left in the shade of Rosa Park’s success.

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$3,200,400 in 1955. This equates to $28,939,287.37 in today's value.  That is how much money the Montgomery bus system lost due to the widespread boycotts inspired by the courage of a woman who refused to sit silently in the face of segregation.

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Imagine a city's  public transportation  company such as Marta losing over 24 million dollars due to 42,000 regular riders boycotting the bus.

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Imagine a world where each race has different public transportation.This could have been our world if not for Rosa Parks.

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#Rosa Imagine a world where one human is less than another. Imagine a world where some are confined to a box. You do not live in that world because of two women; Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin.

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#Rosa /// Rosa Parks' boycott was like a civil war because it was hard to fight and hard to end, but changes the country forever.

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Imagine being an African American during times of segregation. You wouldn't be able to go anywhere or do anything without being watched.

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#Rosa
Imagine if you were quietly riding the bus home from work, minding your business. Then, you were told to get up and only due to the color of your skin. Would you get up and make it known that you give in to dicriminationor stay and defend your rights as a citizen?

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Imagine you are in 1955, and in a rural area needing a ride to town for work. You get on to the nearest bus stop and sit down. The bus is full and a white passenger can't find a seat. Then all of a sudden, the bus driver yells at you to get out of your seat for him. Even though you know it is wrong, you get up anyway because you need to get to work. This is what blacks had to face, but luckily 2 women took a stand for equality and against injustice.

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#Rosa
Rosa parks fight for freedom was like a firework because it was dangerous to start but the  ending has been beautiful through history.

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#Claudette
Imagine going to a bus stop in the 1950's and getting on the bus only to find the bus sections divided and a African American giving up their seat to a white person. If it wasn't for Claudette Colvin and Rosa Park's we would still be stuck in the 1950's

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Imagine being a young African American woman on a bus crowded with 3 other woman in one seat when the driver comes over and demands

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#Rosa
When you learned about the African American freedom movement who did you learn about, a young teen named Claudette Calvin or a calm lady named Rosa Parks?