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Rosa Parks Courage Analysis

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Today I’m going to talk about courage. When people encourage you that gives you a lot of courage. Courage basically means to do something you’ve never done. First of all, Rosa Parks had a lot of courage, people cheered her on. Rosa parks encouraged a lot of african americans to do things “Her actions inspired other african americans to rally for equality.” When you have courage you don’t only do it for yourself , you also do it for other people like your friends and family. Second, she had courage for herself. She had courage for herself because she didn’t want to stand and she just wanted to stand up for herself. The americans treated them badly and she was tired of it and decided she didn’t want to be treated like that anymore. Rosa

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