We have made a project about the civil right movement. In this project we have described who some of the leaders were, and what they stand for. We have also described how the black people demonstrated in the civil right movement, and what they achieved out from their actions. Their
opportunities today is also described.
Rosa Parks
Rosa McCauley was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As she was still young she moved with her mother to Pine Level, Alabama, where they should live with her grandparents. They worked hard to get what was necessary, but they did not have any luxuries as many of the white persons.
Rosa Parks worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), for the Youth Council and she was elected to work for the Montgomery branch. The Montgomery branch worked to dismantle racial segregations in the education and in the public area. Rosa Parks is best known for what he did in 1955, on December 1st. After a long day at work she took the bus home, but she sat in a seat where she was not aloud to sit. As the Montgomery law says, that white passengers were given the front seats on the bus. Even if no white passengers sat on the seats the black passengers could not. If the white passengers have filled their seats the black passengers should give their seats to the whites. On the December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks had taken a seat behind the white section, she was asked to leave the seat for another passenger, a white man. Rosa refused to leave her seat to the white passenger, so the bus was stopped and a policeman went into the bus and arrested her. Her arrest was the starting of a bus boycott in Montgomery.
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