One person that I truly admire for taking a stand is Rosa Parks. She proved to everyone that one person can really make a difference. Her stand even sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and was one of the first movements to help begin removing racial segregation from everyday life.
On December 1, 1955, Parks boarded a downtown bus. And at the time, of course, the buses were divided into races, "black" and "white". Rosa sat in the seat right behind the racial border, like always. However today, everything began to change.
Due to a larger amount of Caucasian people on the bus, the bus driver asked four African-Americans, including Parks, to move back a few seats. While the others did as they were told, Parks stayed. The driver continued to ask her to move back, yet she stood her ground. The driver became aggravated and called the police, and Rosa Parks was arrested.
Parks was taken to jail, but was later bailed out. This whole series of events later resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and even led to the Martin Luther King Jr. speech. I feel that this one person made a huge difference in every ones lives, and I admire her for that.
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wow, I did not know all the ways Rosa Parks took a stand.
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