Peace Heros- Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist, and she was later called the mother of the modern day civil rights movement. Rosa Parks is inspirational to me because she is a woman, who have had a hard time getting rights as it is but she was also African American, and she had to deal with racism. Rosa Parks started her journey by refusing to give up her spot on a bus to a white passenger,after a long day at work, and she was arrested. After that she started a bus boycott with Martin Luther King. she got all the black people living in Montgomery to refuse to use the bus, and many of them including Rosa Parks were harassed and intimidated but the protests continued. Eventually after 13 months the bus company was forced to give in to their demands, because of loss of revenue.
Rosa Parks moved to Detroit and became a special assistant to Democratic Congressman, John Conyers. Rosa was starting to become quite popular, in 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which helped the young and educated them about civil rights, she also established an annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award, and won many awards her self including, the Springar medal, congressional gold medal, and a statue was put up of her.
Rosa Parks is mostly inspirational to me because she did not give up, even when she was arrested, also she continued with being a civil rights activist after she won the boycott, finally because she is a woman and its great to have women out there making a difference, making up for what we lacked during the time when women had no rights.
The next inspirational peace hero i would nominate would be Lester B Person because he was Prime Minister of Canada and he use his authority for good, for example, it is said that he gave Canada the identity that it has today, he was the first to propose a peace keeping force in response to the Suez crisis in Egypt in 1956. He also achieve many things for Canada including health care and our Canadian flag.
In 3rd place of who I would nominate as a peace hero would be John Lennon because he was not only apart of a music group but he also had time for peace. He staged anti-war art, he announced he would not get out of bed until the U.S.A withdrew from the Vietnam war, and he dedicated many songs to peace or anti-war movements.
In conclusion there are many peace hero's out there but the one that stand out for me are Rosa Parks who demonstrated that you can accomplish what you set your mind to no matter your race or sex. also Lester b person our very own prime minister who was the first to establish a peace keeping force and gave Canadian the reputation of peace keepers, and finally John Lennon, being part of a famous music group decided to prove a point through his music and put out his ideas.