Title: Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader
Author: Mary Hull
Genre: Biography
Pages: 122
Even though I have gathered my research from many different short novels, I have decided to write a blog post on this one, because I thought that is was really well-written, and not difficult to comprehend. It is quite clear that it was written for our age group. However, the biography is written, in my opinion, in a strange way. The first chapter talks about the event that eventually made Rosa parks well-known, and that turned her whole life around. The chapter is fairly long, and only after it finishes does the book start talking about Rosa's parents, childhood, and early life in a chronological manner. On December 1, 1955, Rosa was coming back from work, and she took a seat on the bus, right behind the section that was reserved only for whites. It seemed as though it would be just another regular day, until the bus driver started making rude, racist remarks aimed towards Rosa and other African American passangers close to her. He asked them to move from their seats, to make more space for the other white passangers, despite the fact that they were not seating at the section reserved for whites. However, Rosa refused. Even as a little girl, Rosa was taught not to think of herself as inferior in comparison to white people, because she was black. When she was later asked why she didn't stand up and move somewhere else, Rosa responded that she was tired of being treated in a degrading way, and that she deserved to be treated like a human being. Her refusal to move seats on the bus led to her arrest. This is how Rosa Parks became who she is known as today, a brave woman who fought for the rights of African American people, and a woman who was never afraid to speak her mind, and share her opinions, even if it meant being threatened and harassed constantly by society.
A unique fact that I didn't know before I started reading this biography or researching the life of Rosa Parks is that she never meant to become a civil rights activist. When the incident on the bus happened, Rosa was working as a tailor's assistant at a department store in Montgomery, Alabama. However, as she later said herself, after all the years of being discriminated from society, she was tired of it, and needed to do something not to only stand up for herself, but other African Americans who were constantly suffering. Later in her life she stated: "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...so other people would also be free."
Author: Mary Hull
Genre: Biography
Pages: 122
Even though I have gathered my research from many different short novels, I have decided to write a blog post on this one, because I thought that is was really well-written, and not difficult to comprehend. It is quite clear that it was written for our age group. However, the biography is written, in my opinion, in a strange way. The first chapter talks about the event that eventually made Rosa parks well-known, and that turned her whole life around. The chapter is fairly long, and only after it finishes does the book start talking about Rosa's parents, childhood, and early life in a chronological manner. On December 1, 1955, Rosa was coming back from work, and she took a seat on the bus, right behind the section that was reserved only for whites. It seemed as though it would be just another regular day, until the bus driver started making rude, racist remarks aimed towards Rosa and other African American passangers close to her. He asked them to move from their seats, to make more space for the other white passangers, despite the fact that they were not seating at the section reserved for whites. However, Rosa refused. Even as a little girl, Rosa was taught not to think of herself as inferior in comparison to white people, because she was black. When she was later asked why she didn't stand up and move somewhere else, Rosa responded that she was tired of being treated in a degrading way, and that she deserved to be treated like a human being. Her refusal to move seats on the bus led to her arrest. This is how Rosa Parks became who she is known as today, a brave woman who fought for the rights of African American people, and a woman who was never afraid to speak her mind, and share her opinions, even if it meant being threatened and harassed constantly by society.
A unique fact that I didn't know before I started reading this biography or researching the life of Rosa Parks is that she never meant to become a civil rights activist. When the incident on the bus happened, Rosa was working as a tailor's assistant at a department store in Montgomery, Alabama. However, as she later said herself, after all the years of being discriminated from society, she was tired of it, and needed to do something not to only stand up for herself, but other African Americans who were constantly suffering. Later in her life she stated: "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...so other people would also be free."
After reading your post and learning more about Rosa Parks it really confirmed that she is a great person. I really like the quote you included in the end, it really sums up her life's mission.
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