Rosa Parks: Segregation In The United States

Historically, the Civil Rights Movement was a time during the 1950’s and 1960’s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. Looking back on all the events, and vital figures it produced, this explanation is very unclear. In order to fully understand the Civil Rights Movement, you have to go back to its beginning. Most people believe that Rosa Parks began the whole civil rights movement. She did in fact move the Civil Rights Movement to groundbreaking heights but its origin began in 1954 with Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka was the foundation for change in American History as a whole. Some may argue that Plessy vs. Ferguson is in fact backdrop for the Civil Rights Movement, but I disagree. Plessy

Some things that were unfair between white and black people back then was that black people had to sit at the back of the bus or give up their seats for white people. Also, they attended different schools and parks, housing was different and so was voting. The law Rosa Parks broke was the segregation law, and she broke it after not giving up her seat on a bus for a white person. Her motvation on two levels was because she was tired from a hard day at work and wanted to relax on get home. On another level, she was strong and was fighting for what she believed in.

Rosa Parks faced a lot of hard challenges in the time of 1931. She was a great reenactor and leader. She made a huge impact on human race. She wasn’t like all people now days. Rosa was once the girl who had to walk to school, while other white kids rode a bus to school. Rosa was getting sick and tired of the way people were treating her and her kind, so she made a movement that affected everyone. There was a group of them that were done with getting mistreated, and the practiced what would happen o the bus, work, and practically everywhere else. This amazing group was called the NAACP. NAACP means National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This was a group that proved that actions speak louder than words, and they weren’t just rich, billionaires, they were ordinary people getting mistreated, and finally getting fed up with other people 's behaviors.

Research Paper: Rosa Parks Rosa Parks is an African American that grew up in one of many segregated cities, Montgomery, Alabama. Being the “First Lady of Civil Rights”, she had many opinions on the daily life of African Americans. But born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4th, 1913. She stood up for what she believed was right, and succeeded. Due to her courage, what she did to make history, and her race, Rosa Parks made a statement in the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks is known for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Due to the bus incident, it caused a citywide boycott, and helped launched a nationwide effort to end segregation in the public. She is one of the greatest people in history, for her beliefs and actions.

Blacks began to stand up against the racial segregation. In December of 1955, four months after Emmett Till’s death, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested for breaking the Jim Crow law. It was a law for blacks to always sit in the back of the bus away from whites or give up their seats for whites. When Rosa Parks was later asked why she refused to give up her seat she replied, “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired…but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically…

Rosa Parks is an African American civil rights activisit who became famous when she stood up for what she believed and broke the rules-by sitting down. On December 1,1955, Parks sat in a seat on a bus in Alabama, heading home after a long day of work. She was asked many times by the conductor to move seats but she refused every time the conductor asked. She was arrested later that day for disobeying the Alabama law.

Rosa Parks is known for the mother of civil rights;her knowledge in civil rights led to her rebellion against racism and hate. When Rosa was younger she was very aware of Jim crow laws. Black people had to ride different busses than white people to school(."Montgomery”). She went to a public school at age eleven and later dropped out to take care of her grandma.

In school, she learned “to believe we could do what we wanted in life” (Parks). Also while in school, Parks learned that not all white people were bigots and were for segregation of black people. Rosa Parks was a highly respected black woman in Montgomery Alabama (Berdhoff). Parks was involved in her community by being active in the NAACP. She was also the Secretary of E.D. Nixon, the president of the Montgomery chapter.

She also became in 1936 the « Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration » (73-76). Finally, she finished her actions for the black community but moreover for black women when she helped the NAACP at the conference of 1945 on the subject: the foundation of the United Nations. Along her life, she never stopped giving her help and ideas to improve the Black condition in the US. Then, Rosa Parks is one of the most famous and recognized woman of the Civil Rights Movement. Born in 1913 in Alabama, her refusal to surrender her seat in a bus to a white person made her famous all around the world.

1. On December 1955, Rosa was sitting in the front section in the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section, when more white people got on, and filled up the white section, the black people were supposed to give up their seats to the white people, but one brave black person, Rosa parks refused to give up her seat. The bus driver said, “Let me have those front seats” and she refused.

When Rosa Parks got an arrest, it had started a resolution. When Rosa didn't get up from her seat for a white man, the driver called the police and arrested her. So at her court date, the African Americans had started a boycott. The Africans have to seat in the back of the bus in the colored section. Because Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man; she started a revolution and the fight for equal rights for black people.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested for protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. The court had issued an order that King wasn’t allowed to hold protest in Birmingham. Everything was separated between the blacks and whites. The blacks were only allowed to sit in certain areas from businesses, churches, libraries; they weren’t even allowed to use public restrooms. Everywhere that the blacks went they were at a constant discrimination and a threat of violence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. initiated a civil rights movement that after many obstacles was a success and caused desegregation in schools and retail places.

Rosa Parks was an African American woman who disobeyed an order to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. She would then be dragged off the bus and was fined. This is the first well-known time that a black person had violated the segregation laws. Rosa’s brother had asked Martin Luther King Jr. to help with the boycott. He agreed and then he warned other ministers about the boycott.

Summary The film Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is written and directed by Robert Houston, and produced by Robert Hudson, Bill Couturie and Dulanie M. Ellis. The film centers around the bus boycott at Montgomery by Rosa parks (Houston, 2002). There is an interesting aspect, whereby, observers and participants of the bus boycott at Montgomery are joined by their daughters, nephews, sons, nieces and grandchildren to tell the story in a figurative and memorable manner. The film centers on the traditional aspect played by Rosa Parks, and develops into a valuable footage that portrays the entire boycott.