Today we talk about a person that you know who is Rosa Parks .
Rosa Louise Mcauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on fébruary 4, 1913. Her parents are James Mcauley and Leona Edwards who are a carpenter and a teatcher.
Her ocupation was dressmaker but after she became an african american civil rights activist and the US congress later called "the first lady of the civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
She fought for the equality of black people and white people citizen. At this moment were many differents between various races. The bus are an example of this segregation of daily life. they had not differents vehicles for the different races but they had separate sections for blacks and whites.
On buses in Montgomery, the first rows were reserved for the whites, Blacks, who accounted for 75 percent of users they should go to the back of the bus. However, they could sit in the central zone, until whites are in need, then they should either give up their seats and go to the bottom or leave the bus.
Moreover for the black school children in the south, were forbiden go to the school with a bus. Parks remember when she had to walk to school " I had see the bus pass every day ... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world..."
And this is why on december 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
"When I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long."
Rosa Parks was put in jail and must pay a fine of $ 14. Therefore, African-Americans led by Martin Luther King decided to boycott the city bus in Montgomery. In an action often considered the beginning of the civil rights movement, black citizens adopt carpooling, borrow that black-owned taxis or