Rosa Parks for Kids | Biography Video

Today we are going to learn about Rosa Parks, another incredible American heroine, Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who fought for the equal and fair treatment of African Americans. She had such a great impact that she was later called the first lady of civil rights of the United States. Congress and she is also called the mother of the freedom movement, that's right, the mother of the freedom movement that you can see right next to her here in this photo is Dr. King himself, she was the mother of the freedom movement. Liberty, the first lady of civil rights. civil rights activist who was bold and brave and it will be amazing to see her life, let's start at the beginning

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was born in 1913 in the state of alabama here is the united states of america what state is alabama, do you know? where is alabama uh where is the state of alabama? the state of alabama is here it's not that interesting have you ever been to alabama cool alabama is in part of the united states it's called southern because it's the southern part of the united states.

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lived on a farm in a small town her family worked as sharecroppers which means they did not own the land but they worked the land in the hope of earning some money on the farm they grew cotton now the Life was very hard on the farm as it was on many farms, but growing cotton was very difficult and many times you had to pick cotton without the right type of shoes or without any type of shoes, the sun was very hot, it would hurt your back Oh my god, life was amazing. difficult here is the state of Alabama again when he turned 11 years old.

Rosa Parks moved to the Pine Level community. Now Pine Level is just outside of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, and you can see the map right there of Alabama. Montgomery is the capital of Alabama. went from being in a rural environment on that farm in that small town to an urban environment on the outskirts of the capital back then there were bad laws that kept things segregated segregated means separated by race this was not fair and it was so horrible to treat people differently because of the color of their skin and this was true not only in the small town that she grew up in when she was very young but also in the outskirts of Montgomery and in Montgomery this was true in rural life, in the suburban life and urban life.

African Americans were mistreated just because of the color of their skin, it was horrible, they had to use different schools, restaurants, sometimes theaters, even hospitals, bathrooms, lunch counters, libraries, and as you can see in this picture, drinking fountains. drinking water, there was even segregation on the buses. they were forced to sit in the back of the bus sometimes they were even forced to stand up during the ride this was horrible it was not fair they were mistreated and Rosa herself was mistreated because she was African American she was treated differently she was harassed They were not treated with the respect she deserved, she was also mistreated, so in 1943 Rosa Parks joined the NAACP.

The NAACP is an organization that fights for the rights of African Americans and still exists today. Rosa Parks was ready to join the civil rights movement. and she was ready to make a big impact to make things fairer. Rosa Parks worked hard for 12 years, but she did not become famous in the civil rights movement until December 1, 1955. That was a day that would change not only her life but all of civil society. human rights movement that day tried to force her to stand up during a bus ride so that she would give up her seat and give it to someone else, but she knew that was not fair and she was not going to back down, I wasn't going to do it.

They bullied her and made her do something that wasn't right, she was there first and deserved to stay where she was, they threatened her and were mean and said let's call the police and guess what she refused, she said no. way, this is not fair, this is not right, she stood up and thinks about how much courage it took, thinks about how brave she was in that moment, with everyone criticizing her, with everyone being mean and making unfair demands, she refused He said, I'm going to sit here, go ahead and look for those police officers because I'm going to do the right thing, so the police came here.

There's the police report they filled out and they explained the situation, how unfair it is that they arrested her for sitting in the seat she deserved to sit in. This photo was taken right before she went to jail. This officer took his fingerprints. Fortunately, she didn't have to stay in jail for long. She got out soon thanks to friends and family and that's a really good thing because she didn't deserve to be there, just like Dr. King was wrongfully imprisoned, just like Rosa Parks, she was still brave despite everything, she wasn't going to give in, something had to be done, something had to be done, this was so unfair that they announced a bus boycott in montgomery the leaders of the civil rights movement in montgomery said: you know what we have to do about this, we're going to make sure let this stop now and you might be wondering what a boycott is, that's a very good question, a boycott is when you stop using a good or service to make a statement and they said, hey, if you're not going to make things fair, We're not going to ride the bus because they knew that the buses needed them to continue using their service, they needed them to continue riding the buses because of the money, so they said, okay, we're not going to ride anymore because it's not fair and you know. , yes, there is a boom, deal with it. you're going to hurt your bottom line you're going to make less money rosa parks was in the hands of other civil rights leaders like dr. king, as we mentioned earlier, who was only 26 years old during the montgomery bus boycott, which is what became known as the montgomery bus boycott and boy did it work all the buses were losing so much money they were suffering they were having to change some of their strategies said what are we going to do they were panicking they were losing money like crazy the boycott lasted a little over a year so it lasted quite a while the boycott ended when the supreme court ruled that segregation on public transportation is illegal.

It's a shame they didn't make all segregation illegal. All segregation did not become illegal until the civil rights act of 1960. but this was a huge victory and ended the boycott because it made segregation on public transportation, such as buses, illegal now after the montgomery bus boycott rosa parks moved to detroit michigan her brother lived in detroit in detroit rosa parks continued to dedicate her life to the civil society human rights movement she wrote books, gave speeches and continued to fight for the rights of African Americans then, in 1996, President Clinton presented Rosa Parks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a great honor for an incredible woman after living a full life.

Rosa Parks passed away nine years later at the age of 92. her entire life was dedicated to civil rights and that legacy and that impact is still felt by millions of people today rosa parks a civil rights activist who was later named first lady of civil rights and mother of the freedom movement thanks by watching this

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about rosa parks the mother of the freedom movement the first lady of civil rights she was so brave she was so brave she was not afraid to do the right thing and let's all aspire to be like that to inspire us to do the right thing It does not matter that