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Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913. She started the Montgomery Bus Boycott after refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white person in 1955. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest against buses being racially segregated on public transport in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott lasted 381 days and ended on the 21st of December 1956. This started a nationwide movement to end racial segregation. She received the Martin Luther King Jr. award by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. This is the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. After she had refused to give her seat to a white person, she was arrested. The day after Rosa Parks’ arrest, the African American community stayed off public transport in protest of her arrest. This small protest leaded to the Supreme Court declaring that the segregation of public transport is unconstitutional, (Biography.com Editors, 2020).

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Rosa Parks is inspiring to me because she stood up firmly against something that was wrong and fought for change. This is inspiring because it showed me that people with good intentions can do anything and they always have the ability to do what’s right, especially if no one else is going to do it. She is also inspiring because she was just a random lady when the bus boycott happened, and she had no position of power as an African American woman but still managed to rebel against what at the time the white people though was okay. This shows me and many other people that even when I think I can’t do something or am in doubt I can do whatever I want if I put my mind to it and a little bit of effort. She has challenged my own worldview because previously I was content with going on with whatever happens and getting over it if something ethically or morally happens, but now I have learnt that I should stand up for others and myself if something bad is happening and to be there for others who might be impacted by an event.

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This shows how Martin Luther Kink Jr. was an inspiration to Rosa Parks. 

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This shows how Martin Luther Kink Jr. was an inspiration to Rosa Parks. 

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The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images (2018). Martin Luther King, director of segregated bus boycott and Rosa Parks who was the catalyst for the protest of bus riders. [image] Available at: https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks#&gid=ci019b6c021c49860d&pid=martin-luther-king-director-of-segregated-bus-boycott--rosa-parks-who-was-the-catalyst-for-the-protest-of-bus-riders-photo-by-don-cravensthe-life-images-collectiongetty-images [Accessed 24 Feb. 2020].

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This photo is important because it was taken the day that bus segregation was banned. 

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This photo is important because it was taken the day that bus segregation was banned. 

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Biography (2018). Rosa Parks after a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city public transit vehicles took effect in 1956.. [image] Available at: https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks#&gid=ci019b6c021c49860d&pid=civil-rights-leader-rosa-parks-smiling [Accessed 24 Feb. 2020].

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One of the only ways Rosa Parks was less than perfect was that she broke to law. Even though she broke the law for a really good reason, she still broke it. When she broke the law by not giving up her seat, the bus driver had the right to call the police and have her arrested which is what the bus driver did. This arrest was what ended up causing the civil rights movement so even though she wasn’t following the rules, something really amazing came out of it.

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Rosa Parks was a Christian. She was specifically part of a branch of the Christian Church called African Methodist Episcopal, (Study.com, n.d.). Early Methodism was against slavery and anti-elitist, so it interested people of many cultures. This meant the church was welcoming to African Americans like Rosa Parks and it was a way for people of that community that people who think they are superior and better than others are wrong and that they are allowed to fight for themselves because God created us as equals, (Wikipedia, 2019). This guided Rosa Parks’ radical actions because it showed her that she can stand up to people who think they are better than others because everyone is equal.

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Biography.com Editors (2014). Rosa Parks Biography. [online] Biography.com. Available at: https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks [Accessed 17 Feb. 2020].

Cook, R. (2015). Who was Rosa Parks, and what did she do in the fight for racial equality? [online] The Conversation. Available at: http://theconversation.com/who-was-rosa-parks-and-what-did-she-do-in-the-fight-for-racial-equality-51539 [Accessed 17 Feb. 2020].

Curtis, E. and Wang, J. (2015). How Rosa Parks changed a nation. [online] MSNBC. Available at: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/how-rosa-parks-changed-nation#slide1 [Accessed 20 Feb. 2020].

En.wikipedia.org. (2019). Methodist Episcopal Church. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church [Accessed 20 Feb. 2020].

En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Rosa Parks. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks [Accessed 19 Feb. 2020].

Theoharis, J. (2015). How history got the Rosa Parks story wrong. [online] The Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/01/how-history-got-the-rosa-parks-story-wrong/ [Accessed 20 Feb. 2020].

Study.com. (2020). What religion was Rosa Parks? | Study.com. [online] Available at: https://study.com/academy/answer/what-religion-was-rosa-parks.html [Accessed 20 Feb. 2020].

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Rosa Park’s work has encouraged a more open-minded view because she stood up to people who thought white people were superior to African Americans and wanted and succeeded in showing people that we are all equals. She challenged the status quo by deciding she wouldn’t give up her seat like she was expected to. She did this by starting a protest instead of acting out in a violent way against the white people on the bus. Rosa Parks took risks for the wellbeing of others by standing up against the rule of segregation on public transport and getting arrested and also taking harassment from others instead of harassing them too. Rosa Parks may have offended the racist Americans or the man she refused to give her seat to which isn’t important or impactful because she was doing the right thing by standing up for herself and everyone else in her country, (Elissa Curtis and Joy Y. Wang, 2015).  Rosa Parks worked for transformation by starting a boycott that inspired many others, including Martin Luther King Jr, to stand up against white superiority, (Robert Cook, 2015). Martin Luther King Jr. lead the boycott that was caused by Rosa Parks. She also worked for decades trying to help Africans. She did things like voter registration, seeking justice for black victims of white brutality and sexual violence, supporting wrongfully accused black men, and pressing for desegregation of schools and public spaces, (Jeanne Theoharis, 2015).