AMERICAN LIVES 29-1

1.Why is Parks called the “mother of the civil rights movement”?
Rosa parks is called the mother of the civil rights movement because when she quitely and non violently refused to move from her seat on the bus she started a large amounts of peacful protests that were huge contriubters to the civil righs movment.

2. Jo Ann Robinson recalled later that Parks was “dignified” and had “strong morals and high character.” Why did that make her a good symbol to promote the bus boycott?
This made her a good symbol to promote the bus boycott because what she had done was peaceful and nonviolent, and made a difference. Also because since she did have good morals she was someone to look up to, almost like a hero for her time period.

3. Explain in your own words what Parks’s action meant to American history.
Rosa Parks action was a peacful movement that helped inspire the majority of African Americans to fight against the bus company. She also helped inspire Martin Luther King Junior, who was one of the main factors to abolishing segregation.