Rosa Parkshttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Rosaparks.jpg/220px-Rosaparks.jpg7.442 billion people roam the streets. Many roam unrecognized. In our society, we have many heroes that can be defined by a variety of good actions. An example of a hero that has done a good deed is Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. She was an activist in the civil rights movement in the mid 1950s. Parks was best recognized as a long term advocate for the civil rights movement alongside a vital person in her life who was her husband. Heroes must retain leadership by striving for the good of something and they possess courage when they stand up against the unjust. Rosa Parks is endowed with leadership and courage by taking a big role in the civil rights movement as one of the leaders. She had a lot of courage when standing up and being disobedient against what she knew was immoral.
Rosa Parks is a great example of a leader due to her great acts in the civil rights movement. Civil rights were a big deal back then and Rosa Parks held a big position in the movement. “Rosa Parks is regarded as the person who sparked the twentieth-century civil rights movement in the United States,” (St. james Encyclopedia of Popular Culture). Rosa had an event in her life that deposited an impact on civil rights. The event was the well-known argument in the Montgomery bus where she did not obey the rules of having to give her seat up for a white person. She heavily contributed to the initiation of the twentieth-century civil rights movement with this event. Parks is considered a leader due to one of her key events that was known to be the spark or initiation of the civil rights movement. Rosa’s disobedience in the bus became the spark that made her persona hold the characteristic of being a hero. Around her time period, there was an association that was a part of the civil rights movement. The association was called the NAACP, also known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “Parks worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council and in 1943 was elected to serve as the secretary of the Montgomery branch,” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). There, she worked with NAACP, which was a group that worked towards the justice and equality for African Americans. Rosa Parks was a part of a group in which was working towards civil rights. This means that she had a role given from the association to take leadership. Rosa Parks retained leadership by joining and becoming a part of this association. Heroes have leadership and Rosa Parks earned that trait by not only standing up for herself in the bus event but also taking a big role in the civil rights movement.
Montgomery Bushttps://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTQ1MTM5Nzk3MDg0NzQzMDY0/rosa-parks---legacy.jpgThe trait of courage is embedded into Rosa Parks from her bravery against what she knows is wrong. Rosa Parks was optimal for the civil rights movement because of her major courage to fight for rights. “What made Parks unique was her standing in the African American community. Montgomery civil rights leaders knew she would be an ideal person to support their fight for integration in the court system,” (St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture). Rosa Parks became an ideal person to become a part of the fight within the African American community because of the many roles she had in the standing. This quote shows that shes courageous because she had a huge role in society where she fought for what was good with all knowing that she could face consequences for fighting back. There were many rules back then for the African Americans. For example, they had their own bathrooms, water fountains, seats, etc. “On December 1, 1955, Rosa Lee Parks (née McCauley; 1913-2005) refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus,” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Rosa Parks was coming home from her long day of work going home and she had decided to take the Montgomery bus home. She then encountered a problem when she found her seat on the bus. A white man wanted her seat. This quote is an introduction to the problem that she deals with. After she goes through this problem of racial segregation, the trait of being courageous is presented. According to the law at the time, she is supposed to give up her seat when a white person would request but she decided to defy the rule and stand up for herself. Rosa Parks holds courage by showing bravery with her standing against the fight and her key event that showed racial segregation. She knows that what she’s doing is for a good cause so she decided to go through the route that results in consequences just for the sake of standing up for herself and her African American community.
The Arrest of Rosa Parkshttps://www.history.com/s3static/video-thumbnails/AETN-History_VMS/1017/447/History_Rosa_Parks_Montgomery_Bus_Boycott_179889_SF_HD.jpgRosa Parks is equipped with the characteristics of leadership and courage with her many actions back in the mid 1950s. Rosa Parks became a huge leader around the 1950s because she was a part of a huge association that was fighting for rights and she contributed to the initiation of the civil rights movement. She showed being courage when she stood up against what she knew wasn't right and when she joined an association with all knowing that there would be consequences for fighting back. Rosa Parks is an inspiration to many through one of her acts that opposed the injustice in our society. Blacks did not have rights at the time and she decided that it was unjust. In a bus. She refused to give her seat to a white man although according to the law, she was supposed to yield. She stood up for herself and other African-Americans facing racism with bravery. Rosa Parks had also spent the majority of her lifetime fighting racism.This inspires others to stand up for the good of things. Rosa Parks is an inspirational hero who was a leader and had a lot of courage. In one of her writings after the arrest from the Montgomery bus disobedience, she stated, ¨I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore” (Rosa Parks).
Works Cited:
"Rosa Lee McCauley Parks." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1631005060/BIC?u=powa9245&sid=BIC&xid=52208470. Accessed 27 Mar. 2018.
"Rosa Parks." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale, 2013. Biography In Context, https://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K2419200932/BIC?u=powa9245&sid=BIC&xid=e06868d2. Accessed 27 Mar. 2018.
“Rosa Parks: A Primary Source Gallery.” Library of Congress,
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