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Cobra 2- mrs clark January 26, 2012 joshua benn

__Rosa Parks__ life in the 1950's and 60's were very difficult for people of color. They had segregated every thing and it was hard for colored people to get a job. The people who got job's didn't have equal pay or equal rights. Life was also unfair and very different from today. So all in all life was very difficult for people of color. Rosa Parks was a important person that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement and brought America to racial equality. Rosa Parks was a black woman living in the times of segregation. That means she lived in the time when black were treated very poorly and had close to no rights. Growing up Rosa had always wondered why blacks and white didn't get along and were always separated. She had been going to a school the excepted both blacks and whites and also had at least two of every thing including bathrooms, class rooms and water fountains. One day at school when no one was around she wondered how the water fountains were different so she took the chance and drank the water. It tasted the same to and from that day on Rosa new something was wrong with the world. Rosa continued to go to school like life was normal. One day on her walk from school a white boy threaten to hit her so she picked up a rock and said if you come near me I will beat you with this rock. When she got home she told her grandmother what had happened and she had began to cry. She asked her grandmother what was wrong and she scolded her and told her to never stand up to a white person again. Rosa was very confused until a few nights later when her grandpa told her about the people who wore sheets. The people who hated black people with a passion. Rosa grew up and became a old woman. She got a job on the other side of town. Now that blacks were aloud to take the bus she started to take the bus. At this time D.R Martin Luther King J.R was trying to bring blacks, whites, and other races together. The rights though were still not equal Rosa parks got on the bus and sat down near the front. The bus drove through many streets picking up people at the bus stops. Soon the bus became crowded with white and blacks. The bus rules were the a black man or woman had to give up there seats to white people and stand. A white man got on the bus and there were no more seats so 4 other black people got up and offered there seats but Rosa Parks didn't. This angered the man so he yelled at her to move and when she did not the bus driver got the cop. In the Rosa had ended up going to jail but that wasn't that bad because it started up something called the Bus Boycott. Which helped Martin Luther King accomplish his goals.