Rosa Parks: Whose protest changed history
By: Sheedi Yaqoob
Tags: Black People, History, Civil Rights, USA, Black Women

who changed the History of the protest and identified herself as a woman committed to civil rights. Not surprisingly, Rosa Parks is the first black woman to take the lead in the civil rights struggle. It revived protests in the 1950s and 1960s that led to the emergence of leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and revived the long struggle for racial equality.

was born in Alabama and was named Rosa Macaulay. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher in a one-room rural school. When Parks was two years old, her parents separated. Rosa and his younger brother moved to Pine Level Alabama with their mother and grandparents. After Nana’s death, Rosa and her family moved into an aunt’s house in Montgomery.

Rosa enrolled at Montgomery Industrial School, where she was trained in cooking, sewing, basket-making, and embroidery. After graduating from junior high school, she attended Alabama State High School but was repeatedly cut off from caring for her ailing mother and elderly grandmother.

In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber and civil rights activist. He worked as an insurance agent and repaired people’s clothes and received a high school diploma in 1934.

During the economic crisis, job opportunities for African Americans were scarce and there was constant racial abuse. Parks writes in her autobiography, “Whites would accuse you of making a mess even though you were acting like a normal human being.” He had to die every time he faced this kind of discrimination. “

also started the Montgomery Chapter (NAACP) Youth Council from 1943 to 1956 and became secretary of the Montgomery Voters League. While he actively participated in the voter registration. She also worked at a department store.

The reason for fighting for civil rights…

It all started when Rosa Parks was returning home from work one day. When the bus arrived, she got on it. In those days, blacks were allowed to travel in the back of the bus, while the front was reserved for whites. Due to a lack of space at the back, Parks took an empty seat that day, and the bus driver told him to leave. Rosa Parks denied this and this denial proved to be historic.

The driver called the police. He jailed Parks for violating Montgomery’s transportation laws. She was released on 100 bails and the trial is set to begin on Monday, December 5. On the holiday, 7,000 members of the black community gathered to protest Parks’ arrest.

The gathering led to the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the election of 26-year-old MartinLuther King Jr. as its president. King called for a one-day bus boycott, which was later extended because Parks was convicted and fined 10 and fined 4.

He refused to pay and appealed to Montgomery Circuit Court. As a result of these incidents, both Rosa Parks and her husband lost their jobs and were intimidated. Finally, in 1956, the United States District Court ruled that racial discrimination in buses was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling and ordered an end to the discrimination on Montgomery buses.

protested for 381 days. None of them boarded public transport during that time. Eventually, the allocation of seats in buses ended. Montgomery’s peaceful boycott fueled the African Americans civil rights movement and became a model for nonviolent campaigns throughout South America.

Martin Luther King Jr. also led sit-ins and boycotts elsewhere. She became nationally famous after the Montgomery incident. Rosa Parks and her husband moved to Detroit in 1957 when they could not find work in Montgomery. There, Parks sewed clothes and took an active part in the movement.

In Detroit, she worked as a staff assistant for the movement, which she continued until she retired. Rosa Parks was honored in various ways, including the “Non-Violent Peace Prize” with Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, Rosa Parks is a great woman who, with her steadfastness and determination, made a significant contribution to American history.