Oral anglais bac-pro Rosa Parks

ROSA PARKS

Today, we are going to tell the history of Rosa Parks.

She was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended the local schools until she was 11 years old. Then she left high school early,to take care of her sick grandmother, then to care for her mother as well.

In 1932 Rosa married Raymond Parks who was a barber. Together, they worked for the local(lôcol) group of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored(caleurd) People. Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery.

Most of South america in the 1950’s, the first rows of seats on city buses were for white people only and black people sat in the back of the bus(bassy). Both groups could sit in the middle area. However, the black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person wanted to sit there.

One day Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat. Then The driver demanded the four black people that they had to  leave their seats . then the three other blacks got up, but Mrs. Parks refused to stand up  so she got arrested.

The women’s group immediately called for all blacks in the city to refuse to ride on city buses on the day of Mrs. Parks’s trial, Monday the 5th(fifte) of December. The result was 40 000 people walked(wokt) and used other transportation on that day.

The Montgomery bus boycott continued for 381 (three hundred and eighty one)  days. Finally, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Mrs. Parks’s case. It made racial(rwèshial separation illegal on city buses. That decision came on November 1956, almost a year after Mrs. Parks’s arrest. The boycott in Montgomery ended the day after the court order arrived, the 20th of December. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther king had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South.

Rosa life became difficult(dificolt) after the bus boycott because she was dismissed (dissmisst) from her job and couldn’t find another.

So the Parks family left Montgomery and when they arrived in the Michigan, Representative John Conyers gave her a job working in his congressional office in Detroit. She retired from that job in 1988. Through the years, Rosa continued to work for the NAACP and appeared( apirde) at civil right events.  

Rosa Parks received (rwissivd) two of the nation’s highest (hayest) honors (oohwners) for civil rights activism. In 1996, President Clinton honored (owhnerdt) her, with the Presidential Medal of freedom. then in 1999, she received (rwissivd) the Congressional Gold Medal of honor. Rosa Parks died on the 24th of October 2005 (on the age of  92).

I chose(chôse)the story of Rosa Parks because of her braveness(brwèvness)  and for me she is a real heroine who changed the United (yunèaitide)States for ever. 

Thank you for listening to me.

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