This site lists a number of her achievements from 1979 to 2000. In 1979 the NAACP award her the Spinard medal which is the NAACP's highest honor. In 1983, she was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. In September of 1992, Rosa Parks was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award for her years of community service and her life time effort to promote social change through non violent means. Also in 1992, she published two books. One is called My Story and the other Quiet Strength. I feel that quiet strength is what she executed that day on the bus. In 2000, the State of Alabama awarded Rosa Parks the Governor's Medal of Honor for Extraordinary Courage.

This site focus's on who Rosa really was. She was raised by two parents and born in Alabama. Rosa had one sibling and she and was home schooled until she was eleven years old. As a child she suffered from chronic tonsillitis. There was no surprise when Rosa decided to take her famous stand , considering that at an early age she figured out that there was a white world and a black one. She witnessed segregation everywhere from transportation, education and most community services. Not being blind to what was going on around her made her become a member of the civil rights movement in 1943. She joined a group called the NAACP and became the secretary to the president. She held that position until 1957.

What Rosa Parks did in 1955 was huge for African Americans; however, she was not the first to stand her ground and not get up from her seat. There were others that were brave, but they did not receive the notoriety that Ms. Parks received. Rosa's status as a civil rights activist made her the perfect African American to fight this cause. I say that she was perfect to fight the cause because other black leaders thought that she could gain white support. With white support, along with other black activists including Dr. King a boycott was started. I personally think that instead of a boycott, black people should have worked together to start their own bus company. Instead of trying to prove that blacks were equal to whites, I feel blacks during that time should have been trying to create their own. In my opinion black people would be better off today.