Rosa Parks 

Black History month is the month that we celebrate the most important color people in history. When you are in grade school you are always told the stories of these people and the things they did. My favorite is Rosa Parks and her story. Rosa Parks was a black woman who got onto the city bus one day and during her times racism and white privilege was huge. It was officially called the Bus Boycott, she is known as the “mother of the freedom rights movement.”  Parks had gotten on the bus when a white man had gotten on. He demanded that she stand and give him her seat, but she refused and continued to refuse. The boycott was led by Martin Luther King Jr. and lasted for more than a year. Sadly after this she had lost her job, but in the end the U.S Supreme Court decided that racial segregation on busses was unconstitutional. Parks believed in something and she stood up for not only herself but all people of color. Even more so she had known that this would cause problems for her everywhere but that did not  matter to her; she had believed that she had just as many rights as any white man and she defended that opinion.