Rosa Lousie McCauley Parks was born on Febuary 4, 1913 in Tuskagee,Alabama. She was most famous for not giving her seat up to a white passenger on a bus system.She moved to Detroit, Michigan, Where she found similar work to where she had been fired as a seemstress. From 1965-1988 she searved as a secratary and receptionist to African- American U.S. representative John Conyers. Once she retired from this job she wrote a. autobiography and lived in Detroit. In her final years of life she suffered from dementia.
Parks organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders. The most famous was with Martin Luther King Jr. helping him to launch part of the civil rights movement. Parks recieved many metals such as the 1979 Springham metal. Also the Congressional gold metal, a statue in the U.S. Capital National hall.Rosa Parks died on October 24,2005 at the age of 92 in Detroit, Michigan.
I think Rosa Parks was a strong person, and I wish I could be strong like that. She has started so many good things and got many metals for things she accomplished . If it were me I probably would have obeyed the law and gave up the seat, but im glad she didnt because what if we were still like that today. The world would so much different.
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