Rosa Parks ! :)

23Feb10

As a child, she was raised on her grandparent’s farm. She was forced to walk to school because the law foreboded any blacks to ride on the bus. She chose to drop out of school due to illness but she returned to school and in 1932 she received high school diploma. Once blacks were allowed on the buses, she refused to give up her seat, so she was arrested. She was fined $14 because of this. She caused an all day bus boycott on the day of trial. Lastly, she died on October 24. I chose Rosa Parks as my Black history month idol because she didn’t allow segregation or discrimination force her to change her seat. To other blacks, they would give it up because it may just be a seat to them. But to Rosa Parks, it was her dignity, her pride, and her self respect.