Cause and effect is a common way to organize information in a text. Paragraphs structured as cause and effect explain reasons why something happened or the effects of something. These paragraphs can be ordered as causes and effects or as effects and then causes.

Which is found in “On the Bus with Rosa Parks” but not in My Story? I wasn’t frightened at the jail. I was more resigned than anything else. I don’t recall being real angry, not enough to have an argument.

Rosa Parks asked a few people if they were willing to boycott the buses. The author uses a chronological text structure in this excerpt because it. gives readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.

The author uses a chronological text structure in this excerpt because it gives readers a clear picture of the sequence of events.

It provides a fictional account of the well-known event. It includes her first-person point of view, something that cannot be written by anyone else. It allows readers to know what it was like to “walk in her shoes.” It allows readers to view the event from multiple perspectives.

The purpose of cause and effect is to tell the reader what events happened and the reasons why it happened. When you can figure out when the author is telling about why something happened, or the cause, and what happened, or the effect, this will better help you understand what you are reading.

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• Food security.
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• Future of work/unemployment.
• Climate change.
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• Gender equality.
• Global trade and investment and regulatory frameworks.

Her bus protest plunged her family into a decade of health and economic instability, which is reflected in their 1955-1965 tax returns. Both Rosa and Raymond lost their jobs early on in the boycott, developed health problems and never found steady work in Montgomery again.

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Called “the mother of the civil rights movement,” Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks’ arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

Rosa Parks is a hero because she bravely took a stand for civil rights when it was dangerous to do so. When a bus driver asked her to leave her seat for a white passenger on December 1, 1955, Parks peacefully refused and was arrested. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of December 1955–December 1956.

Rosa Parks was in jail for roughly a day. The courts convicted her of disorderly conduct four days after her arrest.

Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

A quote from “Rosa Parks: I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin, September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.

Rosa as a girl’s name is of Latin origin meaning “rose”.

81 years (September 5, 1939)

Claudette Colvin is a civil rights activist who, before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, which ruled that Montgomery’s segregated bus system was unconstitutional.

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A mutual friend introduced Raymond to Rosa in the spring of 1931. He proposed on their second date. She “thought he was too white,” but was impressed with his character and defiant attitude. They married on December 18, 1932, in Pine Level and remained a devoted couple until his death in 1977.

Deceased (1914–2010)

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly the same thing. Eclipsed by Parks, her act of defiance was largely ignored for many years.

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Parks did not refuse to leave her seat because her feet were tired. In her autobiography, Parks debunked the myth that she refused to vacate her seat because she was tired after a long day at work. “I was not tired physically,” she wrote, “or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.

The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience. “The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913.