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- Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913.
-  After her parents separated, Rosa and her mother moved to Montgomery Alabama.
- Her mother was a teacher and her family greatly valued education.
-Rosa attended the Alabama State Teacher's College for Negros until age 16 when she had to leave to tend for her dying grandmother and ill mother.
-She married Raymond Parks, a barber and member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at age 19.

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- During most of her life, Rosa Parks had to deal with the current laws and opinions in society.
- Throughout the early 1900's to the late 1970's, black people were largely segregated by the white population in society and looked down upon as second class.
- Black people were governed by the Jim Crow Laws, which ordered racial segregation in public facilities.
- Blacks could not attend the same schools, drink from the same water fountain, or use the same bathrooms as the white community.
- There were even separate "colored" sections on public transportation, local restaurants, and libraries.
-If any black people dared to break any of these rules, they risked getting arrested, beaten, or sometimes even killed by angry white citizens.

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- Living under the Jim Crow Laws greatly frustrated the Parks, especially Rosa
- She eventually joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, a civil rights organization.
- She eventually became chapter secretary and worked closely along side Edgar Daniel Nixon, the chapter president who was known in the city as an advocate for blacks.
- Rosa Parks was becoming tired and fed up with the segregation in the country and wanted to change how black people were being treated.

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- On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks sat on the bus going home from work at the department store where she worked as a seamstress
- On municipal buses like these, black people were forced to sit in the back of the bus, or the "colored section" of the bus.
-She sat down in the back like she was supposed to when the bus became crowded and a white man noticed there was no more seats left in the white section
- The bus driver then asked if the people in the first row of the "colored" section to move back more to add another row to the "white" section
- Everyone obeyed except for Rosa Parks who stood her ground and refused to give up her seat.
- In her autobiography, she wrote, "I was not tired physically...No, I was tired of giving in" (History.com).
- This makes her a revolutionary because she stood up for what she believed in to try to make a political change for the better of society, which was equal rights for both white and black people.

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How Did the Culture and Circumstances Shape Rosa Parks?

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How Did the Culture and Circumstances Shape Rosa Parks?

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- During this time, the culture of the southern United States included segregation of the black community and superiority of the white community.
- Rosa Parks' circumstances included being completely separated from the white community, such as having to sit in the back of the bus, drinking from different water fountains, using different bathrooms
- These rules and segregation laws made her angry and tired of being treated like lower class.
- Because of this, she decided enough was enough and stood up for not only herself, but every other black person who was too afraid to stand up for themselves.

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1. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Rosa Parks.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 26 Oct. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Rosa-Parks.
2. History.com editors. “Rosa Parks.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks.
3. Urofsky, Melvin I. “Jim Crow Law.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 20 Aug. 2018, www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law.