Rosa Parks And Civil Rights Essay

Back in the day when Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr were alive African Americans and people of different color, ethnicity, and religion didn’t have many Civil Rights. People of white race were described as the most dominant race or the race that had the most rights. Back then there were even water fountains which had labels on them. If the water fountain said caucasian and you were African American you couldn’t use that fountain you would have to use the one that said African American. African American’s that took the bus were allowed to sit in the back and you were allowed to sit in the front as long as no white male or female was standing. However if a white person male or female wanted you seat you had to get up and give it to them. Rosa Park’s who was forty two had just gotten off work and she was tired. All the seats on the bus were filled and a white man wanted her seat Rosa refused to get up the bus driver insisted she get up and Rosa demanded she was going to stay. The bus driver called the police and Rosa Parks was arrested over a bus seat. …show more content…
However everyone also knew Rosa Park’s had been arrested and even people of white race thought that the punishment didn’t fit the crime. People saw it as discrimination and an unfair arrest had been made in the eyes of the public. People stood together and the bus boycott was formed. All across Montgomery people weren't taking the buses anywhere only the people who agreed that Rosa should have given up her seat that day rode the busses but that was very few. All the bus drivers who were doing there job’s nearly comes home with any money because Rosa arrested. This bus boycott eventually made a change. The Supreme Court's banned segregation on the city's busses and that same day Rosa sat at the front of the bus with no worry at all. A year before this change Rosa was