Rosa Parks

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What is a hero? Is it a person that tries to do stuff for themselves? No, a hero is somebody who commits an act of remarkable bravery and who has shown an admirable quality such as great courage or strength of character. A hero is somebody that is selfless, and brave. They inspire other people to do what is right. Who is your hero? My hero is…….. Rosa Parks! She might not be alive now but when she was alive, she had great achievements that nobody else would do.

Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Around the late 1920’s she dropped out of Booker T. Washington High School to care for her ailing grandmother and then her mother. Then on December 1, 1955 after a long day of work as a seamstress for a Montgomery, Alabama department store, she decided to take the bus home. Tired as she was, Mrs. Parks walked past the first few rows of seats that were strictly off limits to African-Americans like her. She sat down at a seat in the middle of the bus where African-Americans could sit, as long as there weren’t any whites standing. Until that day on the bus, Rosa Parks had never broken any law or rule in her life. After the bus was completely full, a white person gets on. The bus driver tells Rosa to get up and go to the back where there were no seats available. The people next to her were also black. They got up as told, but Parks did not. After Mrs. Parks said no several times, the driver went and got a policeman. And that is how she got arrested.

Mrs. Parks hated the segregation laws and decided to do something about it. That is called bravery. She decided to break a law to help all of the African-American people in the United States. She got arrested for doing the right thing, which is a thing that nobody else would do. Rosa Parks inspires others to do what’s right by being included in a boycott against the segregation laws. She and Martin Luther King Jr. were in a boycott. After 381 days, the boycott ends, on December 20, 1956. That day the Supreme Court outlawed the racial segregation which made ALL the African-American people very happy.

Mrs. Parks is extremely selfless for lots of reasons. One of them is that she helped her sickly ill grandmother and mother. But in order for her to do that she had to drop out of school. Some people think she did the refusal just for her but I know for a fact she did not. She did it for everyone it would affect, including herself. To this day people think of that as her act as a selfless deed.

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Rosa Parks is an important hero because she let all the African-Americans’ have just a little bit of a better life. She isn’t the least bit selfish. She cared dearly about people; even the ones she did not even know as a person. That is a really good heroic thing. I think everything she did is heroic and you should have her as your hero, too