Why did the arrest of a woman named Rosa Parks change American Life?

Answer 1

Because she didn't back down. She had the nerve to stand up (or rather, sit down!) for what she knew was right. She forced the racists to deal with her.

Of course, all these years later we find out that she was put up to it, but it was profound that this little woman wasn't going to take it "sitting down".

Answer 2

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement".

Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she give up her seat to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organizers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring legacy for civil rights movements around the world.

Answer 3

turns out that a majority of us agreed with Rosa that our own dignity is important. no one has the right to trample all over it in a fair society, and your dignity gets respected ONLY as my dignity gets respected. the habits of a class or caste system can be hard for a people to shake off. some of us actually prefer to avoid the responsibilities of citizenship, and enjoy the lazy comforts of being led by people who reinforce our primitive tribal prejudices. Rosa chose the less travelled path and hauled the foundations of the American experiment upward along with her.

Answer 4

She stood up for her rights as an American.
The way the constitution was actually written.
All men are created equal.
She just said no!
She became a rallying cry to the civil rights movement, that became a rallying cry to free speach, individual liberty, and unfortunately, that joke called the Civil Liberties Union.
But she was mild and timid and said no at the right time

Answer 5

If I remember right, I think she was the African American woman who refused to sit in the back of the bus back during times of segregation..

Answer 6

She represented civil disobedience against racist laws of the time that required all Blacks to sit at the back of the bus. The way to change laws like this is to protest them or disobey them, especially in large groups.

Answer 7

As a black woman she refused to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus.

Answer 8

Because she wanted to go to the white people school and the Kennedy's wanted her to go