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Jasmine Bermudez

=**// Rosa Parks //**=

Author:Jim Haskins  Do you know what Rosa Parks is famous for? I do! I am about to tell you about the history of Rosa Parks! I am sure that you will be fascinated by all the things I am about to tell you!! Let's start from the beggining of the story. Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, and was named after her grandmother (Rose). She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on Febuary 4, 1913. Her mother's name was Leona Edwards (a teacher) and her father, James McCauley (a carpenter). Her mother had taught her how to read. She had a younger brother named Sylvester and lived on her grandparent's farm. Her parents eventually seperated and her mother took care of Rosa and her younger brother.When she was young White and Black people were separated. White people had all the power. She attended a school for african-american children. The school she went to was an old, one room school house, was open for five months and only went up to sixth grade. Her childhood in Montgomery helped her to develop strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of eleven. Before that, she was home schooled by her mother. At age eleven she attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. She went to Labratory schol for her secondary education but later on left school to care for her sick grandmother, and later her mother. Rosa's childhood was influenced by Jim Crow's law of the south. The law of segregation became official in the 1900's. Which segregated the whites and the blacks. This had included public restrooms, drinking fountains, education and transportation. For the white kids who were going to school, they were allowed to ride the bus and black people were required to walk to a different school. To take the bus to somewhere else besides school, african -americans were allowed to ride the bus as long as they sat in the back of the bus and give up their seats for the whites. Rosa Parks childhood wasn't very happy. When she was a child she was afraid of the Ku Klux Klan. The klu Klux Klan are people who would go around and burn down houses and churches.

She was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. The white man who was driving the bus had said "let me have those front seats." She didn't budge because she was tired of being told what to do by white people. She is another reason that people like Martin Luther King Junior spoke up about the racism that was going around! We should thank her for being brave and for encouraging people to make a difference! Whenever you see two people that are different races talking to each other, you should think "Thanks to Rosa Parks we are able to with each other and not be judged!" 