What was Rosa Parks greatest accomplishments or acheivements?

Answer 1

Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. One day in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat at the front of the bus she was commuting on when a white passenger wanted it. The state law at the time (until 1956) was that African American passengers could sit at the front of the bus ONLY if the seat was not "needed" by a white passenger. Therefore, if a white passenger got on the bus and there was not a seat available at the front, any African American passengers sitting up front were required to give up their seat and move to the back.
Rosa Parks decided one day that she did not want to give up her seat. The bus was stopped, and Rosa was arrested and taken to jail. Her refusal to accept the treatment of a second-class citizen sparked the famous Montgomery bus boycott, one of the very first organized actions taken by the civil rights movement. From her first act of open defiance against racial segregation and inequality came the flood of protest for change in America.
Rosa was also an active member of the NAACP, and had made several attempts to register to vote, which was nearly impossible at the time.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress. Most people see her as an icon...an average woman who refused to sit in the back for no other reason than that she didn't want to. However, they forget, or don't know, that she was an activist. What they don';t realize, or forget, is that she didn't refuse to sit in the back. She is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake's demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. She claimed that her constitutional rights were being violated.She was active in the NAACP's Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as Advisor. There were other cases of black people being arrested, and tried, concerning bus seating. Jackie Robinson and another girl, a teenager whose last name was Colvin. They were both BEFORE Ms. Parks famous episode.
Miss Parks is an american icon, as she is the one who truly sparked a NATIONAL civil rights movement. Later in life, Parks also served as a member of the Board of Advocates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Please, I know Rosa Parks was a special woman, a quiet, strong individual...but there are others who suffered as greatly for thier struggles as she. Do yourself a favor and look up...Sojourner Truth...or Maya Angelou...or Claudette Colvin (had to look her name up, sorry) ... or Elaine Eason Steel...or Coretta Scott King...or Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith. So many women unremembered.....

Answer 3

In a life full of achievement - see link below, please - this may be her greatest:

"Age has not robbed Rosa Parks of her beauty and grace, nor has it restricted her travels and activities. She still makes some twenty-five to thirty personal appearances per year and is a vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa. Her crowning achievement, however, is the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, which she founded in Detroit. The institute offers career training for 12- to 18-year-olds with special attention to education and motivation. "Too many young people are not staying in school and taking advantage of the opportunities they have," Parks told Ebony. "They're not motivated to learn what is necessary to get the good positions, the good jobs, to go into business for themselves."

Answer 4

She was the personification of an ordinary person who refused to be bullied by the system any longer. I believe that if more of we ordinary people stood up and refused, we too could be as extraordinary as she was.

Answer 5

Being remembered as a strong black woman and role model during a time when it was hard for a black person to be recognized for anything positive.

Answer 6

Refused to sit in the back of the bus.

Answer 7

STANDING UP FOR FREEDON
(or refusing to move in that bus)