Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights MovementRepresentative Conyers once boasted, “Rosa was a true giant of the civil rights movement. . . His courage, fortitude, and perseverance in the face of discrimination were the touchstone of the civil rights movement” (Boyd, 2005 p. 43). Rosa Parks grew up in a time when the color of a person's skin defined who they were and how they were treated. Parks did not intend to become the “mother of the civil rights movement”, she was just an ordinary, ordinary seamstress (Boyd, 2005, p. 42). But Parks was an honorable woman who stood up and fought for the civil rights of African Americans. In 2006, Wade-Lewis wrote about her childhood memories surrounding Rosa Parks during segregation. She recounts how her family always had to use the bathroom in their house before road trips, never knowing if they would find a “colored” one along the way. They had separate water fountains and the "colored" one was usually lower and did not contain cold water. Schooling was another problem, they had typewriters and books but they were worn out and broken. Students of color were told by their teachers that they would have to “work twice as hard to get half the credit.” Parks began attending a segregated elementary school in 1918 at the age of five and enrolled in a private school in 1924 known as "Miss White's Industrial School." for Girls,” which had a black student body and a white teaching staff (Chronology, 2012). The school's goal was to "provide education and a sense of pride to their students in an era of racial segregation." The school principal required all to be based on religion and "anti-segregation views", even though their white community did not approve (Harm...... middle of article..... .A. (December 2006). Brown v. Board of Education (1954). PBS.org March 12, 2014. Moholtra, A. (June 1, 2008, biography of Rosa Parks, March 7, 2014). 2009). NAACP.org. March 12, 2014. Death of Rosaparks.com. March 29, 2014. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (2013). civil rights (December 6, 2013). Academy of American Achievement, March 3, 2014. Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedience (April 24, 2000). his courage helped end segregation. (August 1, 2000, Investors.com, March 26, 2014). Vox, L. (2014). About.com, March 19, 2014. I Remember Rosa Parks: The Impact of Segregation. The Black Scholar, 35(4), 2-12.