how did rosa parks change the nation?

Question

what did rosa parks do to change the nation and how did it change the nation?

Answer 1

Rosa Parks, as a black woman, refused to sit at the back of a city bus, stood her ground, and defied the "Jim Crow" laws in the 1950's South.

Answer 2

Rosa Parks began a movement for human rights by not giving up her seat to a white man on a city bus and going to the back where black Americans were supposed to sit at the time.

Answer 3

Rosa Parks was the mother of the civil rights movement and she changed the nation by fighting for what was right for all of us

Answer 4

In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, a requirement in the rules for passengers on the bus line. Blacks were to stand and give up their seat to a White person. She was arrested,and Martin Luther King went to Montgomery to initiate and organize the Montgomery Bus Strike which lasted over a year and was so successful that the bus line had to change its policies. So began the Civil Rights movement with a legitimate leader, am leader who gave his people AND who showed them they had political and economic clout. Rosa began it all.

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Answer 5

she showed the people of America that Black people have the courage to stand up for their rights when she defied the traditions of the time which demanded that she give up her seat on the buss for a white man who didn't have a seat. She is among the most courageous women the USA has ever produced.

Answer 6

we all who know who was Rosa Parks know how

Answer 7

By exposing injustice. By being brave. By fighting for her rights as a human being. Which is what we all should be doing in a peaceful manner.

Answer 8

she showed that everyone( no matter what race thay are) should have the same amount of rights and she showed people to be more independant and stand up for themselves when it comes to something that they strongly believe in..