By Safiya

ChildhoodAs a child Rosa Parks Grew up on a farm in Montgomery, Alabama. As a seven year-old her daily job was to

pick up the eggs laid by the hens that were free to roam in their front

garden. During her childhood she grew up with her grandfather as well as her immediate family. At the age of seven, her grandfather would take

her into town and that’s when the segregation from whites to blacks

was crystal clear...

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Apartheid

The apartheid was the laws that separated whites from blacks, these rules were unfair, menacing, life changing things for the blacks. No body is 100% sure why the whites did this, however it is most likely they did this because they thought that the Africans were savage beings that had no meaning in life. The laws of Apartheid included things like:

In the town hall they had to use septate entrances.

In waiting rooms blacks could not sit on the same bench as whites.

At bus stops the whites had the opportunity to sit down on benches where as the blacks had to stand.

They used different churches to each other.

They had to use different toilets.

They where not allowed to drink from the same water fountains.

A good man called Nelson Mandela helped to end the Apartheid with the help of people like Rosa Parks.

The buses

As an adult she got a job in a department store. On her way to work

she had to take a bus and sit at the back. If all of the whites seats (at the front.) were taken a black person was obliged to give their seat up to a white

person even if they were elderly people who had to give up their seat to a white

child.

The Big Event

It was around 6.30pm on December 1st 1955 that

Rosa Parks made a stand for all blacks.

After a tiresome day at the department store Rosa

boarded the bus and sat at the back as usual. After a

short time all of the white rows became full, shortly

after a white lady boarded the bus and forced Rosa to

move. After being constantly told what to do because

of her skin colour she reluctantly refused. The white

lady immediately contacted the bus driver who

threatened to through her off the bus , still she

refused. Only minutes later were the white police

involved. Mean while all of the blacks being her

started whispering and chatting about her brave

actions. Once the police had come Rosa was arrested

for her actions.

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What did this do for black people?

After the big event many of the black people on that bus got together and rang all of their family and friends, they wanted everyone to know what happened.

On the day of Rosa's court case over 1,000 black south Africans all walked to work together instead of taking the bus. For the next four days they all continued to walk, to conclude this meant that the bus company lost money and the black south Africans had put their point across

On Monday 5th December 1955 Rosa was found guilty and fined $14 (which was allot then!) even after her fine 1,400 blaks of Montgomery either cycled, walked or car shared to work and school. The blacks of Montgomery kept this up for 381 days.

Conclusion

After all of Rosa's efforts to insure all south Africans lived together peacefully she had got somewhere, the government made up a new rule:'Any South African is permitted to sit where they like, when they like on our buses'

Maybe it was not exactly what she wanted but it was definitely a start...

Sadly Rosa is not here with us any longer after her tragic death on october 24th 2005:-(

But in her life time Rosa has inspired people with only small sentances, here are a few...