Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley was born on the 4th of Febuary 1913 in Tuskegee-Alabama-. Her mother-Leona McCauley-was a teacher ,and her father -James McCauley-was a carpenter.

When Rosa was still a child, she suffered from poor health due to chronic tonsillitis. Through she stayed at Tuskegee with her parents, she moved with her mother to Montgomery after her parents got seperated.

Rosa until eleven , attended rural segregated schools. She took academic and vocational courses at the Industrial School for girlsin Montgomery. In her autobiography, she recalls the time she was shown kindness by white strangers ; although, more often than not,she could not ignore the racism in her society everytime she was bullied by white children in her nieghbourhood.

Later on , she attended a labortory school set up by Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes. However , her education was short-lived as she dropped out of school to take care of her grandmother and mother ,both whom had became ill.

When Rosa Parks was 42 years old she was at the back of the bus ,because black people can not sit at the front of the bus . As the the bus drove more and more , more passenagers came on the bus so the busdriver told Rosa Parks had to get of the seat and let the white passenagers on , and her to stand up. The bus driver got furious and threatened her if she does not get up he will call the cops . She calmly said'' You may do that.''

So the busdriver called the cops and they came straight away to the bus and the cops arrested her and took her to jail. Once they arrived at the police station they sent her straight to jail. But luckily for Rosa Parks her friends paid a fine to release her , and they accpected it.But still Rosa will not give up on the seat she sat on even if she got arrested again -twice- she still will not give up.

But sadly in 2005 October the Twenty- Fourth Rosa Parks died , she still left a legacy for the world that everyone should be respected and treated fairly and everyone should never give up.

Yasuke the first black samurai

During the 1500’s in Japan during the Sengoku period an Italian missionary came to the country to promote Christianity and had with him an African man who’s name is unknown as his bodyguard and was most likely a mercenary. When they arrived in Japan one of the most important lords in country Oda Nobunaga spotted the African man and was impressed by his size and athleticism. He then asked the missionary if he could have this man work for him as his bodyguard which he did and in a very short period was then trained as a samurai warrior and…

Hurricane

Rubin Carter was a black American boxer who was known for knocking his opponents out early in the game with a single punch, leading to his nickname ‘Hurricane’.Born in Clifton, New Jersey, on the sixth of May 1937 Carter was a street fighter and once attacked a man with a Boy Scout knife at age eleven or twelve. He claimed the man he stabbed was trying to molest him. As a result of this, he was sent away to Jamesburg State Home for Boys. He then ran away from there and went to his aunt’s home in Philadelphia. While in…