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Rosa Parks
This paper highlights the bravery of Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who protested the racism prevalent in the 1950s.
913 words (approx. 3.7 pages) |
3 sources |
MLA | 2007
Paper Summary:
The paper discusses how Rosa Parks, who held fast to her sense of dignity and worth as a person, risked imprisonment and physical assault, so that she could hold true to her convictions. The paper shows how Rosa Parks became one of the icons of the American Civil Rights Movement because she refused to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The paper demonstrates how Parks' single act of quiet defiance more than fifty years ago helped touch off the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.From the Paper:
""To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius," writes Ralph Waldo Emerson at the beginning of his essay "Self-Reliance." (Emerson, 1841) And, one might add, for all women too! In his famous essay, Emerson writes that genius, and true self-reliance and bravery comes from resisting accepted norms, and refusing to follow the crowd, and the mass, popular opinion. Such was the case with Rosa Parks, who held fast to her sense of dignity and worth as a person, risked imprisonment and physical assault, so that she might hold true to her convictions."Chosen as a "Paper of the Week":
December 1st, 1955 marks what is probably the most important single date in the history of the US Civil Rights Movement because this is the date that seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit there instead. In honor of this important date, paper #95900, "Bravery and Non-Conformity – The Story of Rosa Parks" has been chosen as this week's paper of the week on AcaDemon. The paper begins with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson from his famous essay "Self-Reliance" and then uses the quote to explain Rosa Parks' behavior and decision on that fateful day in December of 1955. The paper notes that by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, Parks "held fast to her sense of dignity and worth as a person, risked imprisonment and physical assault, so that she might hold true to her convictions" and that she therefore epitomized the spirit of Emerson's quote. "Bravery and Non-Conformity – The Story of Rosa Parks" then goes on to expound upon the significance of Parks' decision not to give up her seat not only in terms of how it touched off the US Civil Rights Movement, but also in terms of the strength, courage and conviction required to make such a decision and then act upon it.
Sample of Sources Used:
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." 1841. [7 Nov 2006]<http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm>
- Dove, Rita. "Rosa Parks." Time 100. [7 Nov 2006]<http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html>
- Shipp, E.R. "Rosa Parks." The New York Times. October 25, 2005. [7 Nov 2006]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?ei=5087&en=3acd3fe77777177e&ex=1163390400&adxnnl=1&excamp=GGGNrosaparks&adxnnlx=1162939193-qeB9LP8XpXkwJTwrXlNK9A
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Rosa Parks (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Rosa-Parks/95900
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"Rosa Parks" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Rosa-Parks/95900>
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