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Rosa Parks

by Riley from Glenbrook Middle School

“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”

My hero is Rosa Parks she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was born on February 4, 1913. Her family was her parents, James and Leona. Her brother Sylvester and her. She was always small for her age and had bad health problems when she was younger. When her parents separated she lived with her mother. They lived just outside Montgomery. There she grew up on a farm. She lived with her mom and her brother. She went to church and attended rural schools.

Rosa Parks is a hero because she went against what people were telling her and went for what she believed in. She saw how bad people were treating her friends, family and herself. The white people were thought to be more important than colored people at the time. The challenges she faced were that she had so many enemies and people that hated her. Another challenge that she faced were the policemen were doing nothing to help her. Although she did have many people on her side, all the people that were being treated badly were on her side till the end.

Rosa Parks made a difference in the world on December 1, 1955. She refused to get up from her seat and give it to a white person. She was showing the world that all people should be treated equally. She was on a bus driven by James F. Blake. When she boarded the bus she went and sat in the section for colored people. She was sitting right in the front of the colored section and right behind the white section. When the white section filled up he asked Rosa and 3 other people to give up their seats to white people. The other 3 people moved but Rosa didn’t. The bus driver said to her that he would call the cops and get her arrested and she said that’s fine with me. She got arrested but she still showed the world a great lesson.

Rosa Parks died when she was 92 years old on October 24, 2005. She was sitting on a bus when she was asked to give up her seat for a white person, but she refused so she went to jail. She was a hero to me because she didn’t listen to what people were saying or doing to her. She did what she believed was right. She did go to jail but she made so many people realize that what she did was the right thing and that others should do the same.

Sources:

“Rosa Parks.” Wikimedia foundation, inc.,. march 2 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks.

“Rosa Parks.” Answers.com. © 2011. March 8 2011 http

“Rosa Parks.” Academy of achievement the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation. October 14 2010. March 10 2011. ://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

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