Part one of term paper
Rosa Louise Parks was a civil rights leader born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1955 she was arrested for violating segregation laws when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This resulted in a boycott of the bus system by blacks, with Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the movement. In spite of harassment the boycott continued, ...

Part two of term paper
... to register to vote on several occasions when it was still nearly impossible to do so. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses. Forty years later, despite tremendous gains, Parks feels that we still have a long way to go in improving race relations in this country. , now 83 years old spends most of her year in Detroit but winters in Los Angeles. She is still active in fighting racial injustices, now standing up for what she believes in and sharing her message with others. She ...