Rosa Parks

On February 4, 1913 a black girl named Rosa Louise McCauly was born. She had a little brother named Sylvester, her mother's name was Leona was a schoolteacher, and James built houses. Rosa lived on a farm with her grandparents, who owned their land and raised animals on it. Rosa always went fishing with her grandparents. She loved fishing. When she was in her 20's she married Raymond Parks and became a tailor in the city.

On December 1, 1955 Rosa stepped on to a bus and started toward the back. (The front was only for white people.) She had a very hard day. She sat down, but a few stops later a white man stepped onto the bus. There was no where to sit, so the bus driver ordered Rosa to get up. Rosa wouldn't get up. She was arrested soon after that.

After she was arrested she went to jail. She didn't stay there for the night because her husband bailed her out. She was fined fourteen dollars, but she didn't pay the money because she didn't feel she had broken the law. Many black people heard that Rosa was arrested, and they were angry. They thought segregation rules were wrong. A lady named Jo Ann Robinson said that black people should not ride the buses, they should boycott the buses. They didn't ride the bused for a whole year. They took their case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court said that segregation rules were wrong. Black people could sit wherever they wanted on the bus. Rosa Parks fought for many other rights. She moved to Detroit, Michigan and is still living.

1998, by Brett, third grade

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