Rosa Parks

ROSA PARKS

 

        She was the first woman to protest against white people, when she decided to keep her sit. Throughout*  this event she defended her rights and those of all the black people.  She was courageous, determined and strong.

         She a kind of a model for us, she contributed to making mentalities changed and the society too. Also, she is  courageous woman and she still an example especially for all women because she is a woman.

         One day on the 1st December 1955, she was going to work by bus, and she refused to let her sit to a white person, she said "I am tired of being treated like a second-class citizen"*.The bus driver called the police and she was arrested. Immediately, her friends and other black citizens protested against this injustice. Moreover, Martin Luther King asked to black people not to take the bus, it was the "bus boycott" during 381 days. Thanks to this event segregation on buses was abolished, it was small victory but it changed the USA forever.

          She is Rosa Parks, she was born on the 4th February 1913 in Alabama and died the 24 october 2005.  She lived in Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama (the south was the most part of USA were segregation and slaves existed). She worked as a seamstress*. Moreover she became a member of the American Civil Rights Movement in 194 à The American Civil Rights Movement : it's means the fight of black to defended their rights, especially the rights to vote. It's a non violent movement, where peaceful and respect dominated.

Sources : http://news.yahoo.com/rosa-parks-journey-civil-rights-icon-111408502--politics.html 

Vocabulary :

Throughout: à travers 

Seamstress: couturière 

"I am tired of being treated like a second-class citizen" : "Je suis fatiguée d'être traitée comme un citoyen de seconde classe"