Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley was a carpenter and her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. Growing up she was sick most of the time and was a small child. Eventually her mother and father separated. Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery.
“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” Rosa Parks was just tired of being mistreated over the color of her skin. She sparked up the whites and started a bus boycott. Rosa Parks was honored and still today is honored, made less segregation and more equality, and stood up for herself and blacks. Rosa Parks is honored today and will most likely be honored for ever.
At the age of 11 she was enrolled at the Montgomery Industrial School for girls once graduated, she went on to Alabama State Teacher's College High School. She, however, was unable to graduate with her class, because of the illness of her grandmother Rose Edwards and later her death. After this Rosa once again tries to return to Alabama State Teacher's College, which she did but then her mother also became ill, she then had to care for her mother and also their home. What made Rosa’s life special and also famous was her courageous act of activism. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa was asked to give her seat to a white man, she was extremely tired but she also knew that she had paid the bus fair just like everyone else and felt that she had the right to remain seated therefore, refused to grant her seat to the white man, reason why she then was arrested.
Growing Up Black Rosa Parks lived in Pine Level, Alabama very early in her life but later moved to Montgomery, Alabama to live with her maternal grandparents. From an early age she knew inequality wasn’t fair and protested against any ill treatment ever since she was young. She says that it was mostly from her grandfather she learned not to, “put up with bad treatment from anybody. It was passed down almost in our genes”. Her grandfather was half white and half black.
Eastman makes it clear to her readers, that no matter the stance a woman takes on the women’s rights movement, a true feminist will always fight for what she believes in with courage and strength. Eastman states, “In fighting for the right to vote most women have tried to be either non-committal or thoroughly respectable on every other subject. Now they can say what they are really after; and what they are after, in common with all the rest of the struggling world, is freedom” (Eastman). Women fought for many years for their rights, women including Susan B Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton and many more. For years these women worked hard as activists for women’s rights and in August of 1920 the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.
Malala Yousafzai a promising 13 year old girl from Pakistan who fought for the right for her education especially for girls, she alone raised her voice through international and national media for girls education during the deadliest times in Swat Valley. In which girls were not only banned from attending schools and colleges however they were destroyed as well, over 800 schools for girls were closed down and destroyed. Malala wrote a diary by the name of ‘Gul Makai’ to the BBC News to record her frustrations with the restrictive community especially concerning the limits of female education. Malala Yousafzai is an inspiring icon for the right of children- in particular that of girls- to education. Malala never gave up she was not going to hide in fear and without education for the rest of her life she wanted to take a stand fight for all the girls in Swat Valley, Malala quoted “The cannot stop me; I will get my education whether it is in home, school, or any place.” She had many obstacles to face, she was receiving death threats towards her and her family, if she continued to fight for the right that girls should receive education one of her family member or herself will end up dead.
Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks entered the bus from work to head home. She sat right behind the seats that were saved for the whites, and refused to give up the seat she was sitting in. Mrs. Parks was then arrested and took to jail. This act of civil disobidience was an affective act because later segregation was considered unconsitutional.
Few people are credited with greatness in their lifetime. Rosa Parks, whose name will forever be synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement, is one of the few Americans that bears the title of greatness for her contribution to society. Her refusal to move from her seat in the back of the bus was the much needed catalyst for change in the South. While Rosa Parks’ greatness is mostly attributed to her actions on a Montgomery bus in 1955, it is important to recognize her other contributions to society. The Academy of Achievement (n.d.) discussed Parks’ contributions.
Her husband left early on in Emily’s life and her mother was forced to leave her with friends or send her to day care. “…and I did not know then what I know now- the fatigue of the long day, and the lacerations of group life in the kinds of nurseries that are only parking places for children” (Olsen 707). Emily got nowhere near the amount of attention she needed. Maggie, on the other hand, was always with her mother. Maggie’s mother was also older and better suited to be a mother because she was older and more experienced however, Maggie’s father also left the family.
Norma says this towards the end of the story, when Norma is essentially telling Leroy she wants to be alone. The 14 years alone she’d been alone had helped her deal with the death of her child Randy, and Leroy’s permanent return home has brought back those feelings of their lost child. We can also infer from this that, Norma may have purposely taken bodybuilding, and composition classes In order to avoid Leroy’s constant presence at home. In the story we can clearly see the