Rosa Parks

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• Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913
• Rosa was daughter of a carpenter and a teacher, she grew up in a farm and attended an industrial school.
• At 19 she married Raymond Parks, a barber,but had no children.
• December 1, 1955 Rosa boarded a bus to go home from the downtown department store where she worked as a seamstress.
• On the bus, the seats on the front were for the whites and the seats in the back were for the blacks.

positive eFfects

•  She showed African Americans that they need to be brave.
• She sparked the Civil Rights Movement
• She proved that every american should have the same rights.
• Rosa influenced people to think twice towards their actions on Africans.
• Rosa had an immense influence in the fight to abolish racism.

Negative effects

• She was arrested and fined.
• In 1956 she was arrested for the second time.
• Weeks after this , she lost her department store.
• She received threatening phone calls and death threats.
• She was forced to move out from Montgomery.

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