Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Changed the Nation; by Carolyn

 I drifted down the filthy street  heading home from the worst day at work. The fumes from the yellow taxis flying down the street polluted the air and stung my nose. My legs felt as if they are on strike and won’t go any farther, but I’m so close to the bus stop. Then I feel water drizzling down my face.

Boom! thunder and lighting strike and water was poring from the sky. ” Why me?”

 I make it to the bus stop and sit under the shelter. The bus finally pulls up and I pay my fair and sit in the first seat I see.

Soon as I sit down a white man comes over to me and says “MOVE Negroe”!

“No”, I said back in a strong voice  “and I not a Negroe, I’m a person”.  ” well what ever you are, just move!’, the man yelled

 Then the bus driver looks backed and says” you Negroes better move or your black behinds will end up in jail”,

everyone moved – but me 

“Move!”, he yelled louder than ever

 I paid my fair just like this white man, why can’t I sit here?…  plus my legs hurt, I’d said now yelling.

 The bus driver slowed to a stop and two policemen got on,  they came over to me and took my purse and grab me and cuffed me, as they lead me off the bus I asked … Why do you always push us around?

 No answered came back 

They just put me in the car, started the sirens and drove off. But before we left I looked back and I saw the grin on to bus drivers face and the rage in the blacks eyes.

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10 years Later

As I look back to the horrible day ,

I remember that ugly bus driver who yelled at me.

I remember the white man who told me to move.

I remember the rage in the black peoples eyes.

And the thing I remember the most is fear, the fear I saw in the black peoples’ eyes that day.

Authors notes

 Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegge Alabama on February 4,1913. She was the oldest in the family, and only had one brother. She enter school in 1918 and drop out in high school (1929) to take care of her grandma. In 1932 she was marries Raymond Parks and a year later went back to school. In 1943 Rosa was kicked of a bus for the first time, but not arrested.(it was the same bus driver who  had her arrested years later.)  On December 5,1955 she was arrested for not giving up her seat. Four days later found guilty in court. She died October 24, 2005 from old age.

 

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