Black History Month: The Life of Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks had a tremendous impact on the world we live in today.  Her actions were instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement within the United States.  She took a stand for minorities in different ways with the same mission to earn equality. She took several steps and actions to correct injustices she saw or experienced. She worked diligently on protesting, boycotts, giving speeches, and in some instances took aggressive actions to make changes.  Her actions were one of the most influential aspects of the Civil Rights Movement and paved the way for change in the United States. She aimed for overall equality of all people.

Rosa Parks was a very important individual because of the actions she took one day on a public transportation bus. She was called the first women of the Civil Rights Movement and the mother of the freedom movement. Rosa Parks worked to correct injustices because she was fighting for black people. She was involved in the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People. According to A&E, they expressed, “The NAACP was founded in 1909 it was a group of black intellectuals. Parks was a long time member of the NAACP which she joined in 1943”. This highlights that Rosa Parks was involved in various events and had an immense passion for gaining justice. Before Rosa got arrested she became the secretary of NAACP. She became a youth leader and the field secretary for the NAACP Montgomery chapter. This demonstrates how she tried to correct injustices because she joined the NAACP and then she became the secretary. It also shows how she took the initiative to make and progress into a higher position within the organization.

Rosa Parks did more than just join the NAACP and became secretary. She also sat on a bus where only whites were permitted to sit down. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to white man. Rosa Parks helped to initiate the Civil Rights Movement by refusing to give up her seat and did not feed into society’s “expectations”. Rosa also helped start the bus boycott which Martin Luther King Jr was a part of. During the bus boycott, approximately 40,000 African Americans bus riders boycotted. This fueled the beginning of a drastic change for all people of color in the United States.