"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right" acknowledged Rosa Parks. She is recognized as "mother of the civil rights movement" (imdiversity.com, 1 ) in America. Parks is mostly remembered as the woman who refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. There after she set motion a National Civil Rights Movement for racial equality, and changed the course of American history. Rosa parks is a big part of history changing events because of all the heroic things she did and the hardships she went through for the civil rights movement. She sparked many events following her belief that everyone should be treated equally. On December 1, 1955, parks made a silent statement on a Montgomery bust that
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Black citizens of Montgomery tried to avoided local buses as much as possible if able to because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so disparaging. However, about 70 percent of passengers were black, and on this day Rosa Parks happened to be one of them. Segregation was recorded into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was composed for white residents, and the seats behind them for black residents. There were conflicting Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available. (A&E Television Networks, 1). As she got on to the bus she decided to sit in the colored section right behind the white section. And a white man got on to the bus and went up to Parks, asking that she give her seat up for him. Sick of the constant degradation at the hands of whites, Parks refused to listen, although the others got up and moved. The bus driver next ordered her to move to the back of the bus, but she still refused. The police were called and took Parks to the police station. She was booked, fingerprinted, and jailed and they charged her with disorderly conduct for disobeying a city bus orders. Even though many think that the only reason Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up was because she was worn-out from a long day of work, the reality is that Parks stayed seated because she was sick and tired of being mistreated due to her skin color. As she describes in her autobiography, my story: Rosa Parks, “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… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving
Black citizens of Montgomery tried to avoided local buses as much as possible if able to because they found the Negroes-in-back policy so disparaging. However, about 70 percent of passengers were black, and on this day Rosa Parks happened to be one of them. Segregation was recorded into law; the front of a Montgomery bus was composed for white residents, and the seats behind them for black residents. There were conflicting Montgomery laws on the books: One said segregation must be enforced, but another, largely ignored, said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available. (A&E Television Networks, 1). As she got on to the bus she decided to sit in the colored section right behind the white section. And a white man got on to the bus and went up to Parks, asking that she give her seat up for him. Sick of the constant degradation at the hands of whites, Parks refused to listen, although the others got up and moved. The bus driver next ordered her to move to the back of the bus, but she still refused. The police were called and took Parks to the police station. She was booked, fingerprinted, and jailed and they charged her with disorderly conduct for disobeying a city bus orders. Even though many think that the only reason Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up was because she was worn-out from a long day of work, the reality is that Parks stayed seated because she was sick and tired of being mistreated due to her skin color. As she describes in her autobiography, my story: Rosa Parks, “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… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving