How Did Rosa Parks Came To The Civil Rights Movement

When it came to the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks was no stranger to that kind activity. Being born from Tuskee, Alabama where racial discrimination was a normal way life which meant that African Americans were not allowed to seat in the front of busses, they did not drink from the same water fountain or even allowed to vote. She found this kind of living unbearable and found that some African Americans started standing up for themselves, for example Claudette Colvin, who was a 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat for a white man, Freddie Gray an attorney who represented those who were arrested during the civil rights movement, the lynching of Emmet till who was a 14-year-old boy accused of raping two white women. Her seeing different people standing up for their own rights, she decided to do the same by not giving up her seat for a white man just because the bus the bus was full. …show more content…
With her arrest the African American community was outraged so they created a boycott of the busses where they refused to ride busses which meant they had to find a different source of transportation some of them include; walking to work, taking taxis or carpooling. Since many people who rode busses where the African American community, the public transportation has had a huge loss from the time the boycott started in December 1955 until 1956. For the boycott to end, the government had to bus a bill where African Americans were not segregated in public areas, especially in busses and the new rule was first come first