Rosa Parks My Story By: Rosa Parks
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. She started singing after both her parents died. Ella began her career when she was found at a talent competition in 1934. Fitzgerald was then signed to Decca records also in 1934. She has won 13 Grammys and sold over 40 million albums in her career. Her nicknames were: First Lady of Song, Lady Ella, and Queen of Jazz. She was married to: Ray Brown and then Benny Kornegay. Ella’s only child was Ray Brown Jr. She had a very interesting life.
Ella Fitzgerald's historical impact is that she showed other people that anyone can do whatever they want. She was black and she proved they could sing. Ella inspired others because of her feats. She had won a Grammy when other thought that black females couldn't. Ella was the top female jazz singer for more than 50 years. She was an amazing singer and bested some of the non-blacks of the time. I am glad she won that award because she showed us what people can do.
The Queen of Jazz lived a long life. When she died she was 79 years old. Ella died on June 15, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California. Fitzgerald died of diabetes. We all regret the loss of Ella Fitzgerald the First Lady of Song.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. She started singing after both her parents died. Ella began her career when she was found at a talent competition in 1934. Fitzgerald was then signed to Decca records also in 1934. She has won 13 Grammys and sold over 40 million albums in her career. Her nicknames were: First Lady of Song, Lady Ella, and Queen of Jazz. She was married to: Ray Brown and then Benny Kornegay. Ella’s only child was Ray Brown Jr. She had a very interesting life.
Ella Fitzgerald's historical impact is that she showed other people that anyone can do whatever they want. She was black and she proved they could sing. Ella inspired others because of her feats. She had won a Grammy when other thought that black females couldn't. Ella was the top female jazz singer for more than 50 years. She was an amazing singer and bested some of the non-blacks of the time. I am glad she won that award because she showed us what people can do.
The Queen of Jazz lived a long life. When she died she was 79 years old. Ella died on June 15, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California. Fitzgerald died of diabetes. We all regret the loss of Ella Fitzgerald the First Lady of Song.
Rosa Parks
On February 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Her father was employed as a carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years she was sick much of the time, and as a result, was a small child. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to Pine Level, a town adjacent to Montgomery, Alabama. There Rosa spent the rest of her childhood on her grandparents' farm.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got a ride with that same bus driver. As she rode, she watched the white section fill with riders. The bus driver moved the sign that divided "white" from "black" farther back. He told Parks and three others to give up their seats. She refused. Not only had she had enough of the indignity of segregation, Rosa Parks was not about to suffer another humiliation at the hands of this same bus driver. He called the police. Rosa Parks recalled saying to them as they handcuffed her, "Why do you push us around?" The officer said he only knew that was how it always was. Parks' plight caught the attention of other freedom fighters and spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was marked by several memorial services, among them lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 50,000 people viewed her casket. Rosa was interred between her husband and mother at Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery, in the chapel's mausoleum. Shortly after her death, the chapel was renamed the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel.
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got a ride with that same bus driver. As she rode, she watched the white section fill with riders. The bus driver moved the sign that divided "white" from "black" farther back. He told Parks and three others to give up their seats. She refused. Not only had she had enough of the indignity of segregation, Rosa Parks was not about to suffer another humiliation at the hands of this same bus driver. He called the police. Rosa Parks recalled saying to them as they handcuffed her, "Why do you push us around?" The officer said he only knew that was how it always was. Parks' plight caught the attention of other freedom fighters and spurred the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was marked by several memorial services, among them lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 50,000 people viewed her casket. Rosa was interred between her husband and mother at Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery, in the chapel's mausoleum. Shortly after her death, the chapel was renamed the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel.
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