Keep holding on and keep pushing forward. This was Rosa Parks’ daily encouragement to get through the days of being a minority in the world around her. More than of the African American community experienced the brutal beatings, shootings, and harsh sayings from White Americans. Without people like Rosa Parks’ who decided to take a stand, the Civil Rights Movement would have never occurred. Rosa Parks fought for her freedom, equality, and also for the separation of segregation. Rosa Parks is known as the “The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement". She was an African American activist who did not care about the attention she would get, but rather the impact it would make on her community and history. In Deborah Huso’s article “Sitting
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For countless years of her life, she dreamed of a world where people could drink out of the same water fountain, girls and boys could attend the same school, and whites and blacks could ride on a bus without being kicked off. Considering that Margaret Wade-Lewis’s article “I Remember Rosa Parks: The Impact of Segregation states “in the days of segregation, our lives were totally ‘us and them,’” it makes it clear that African Americans were only allowed to associate with African Americans and White Americans were only allowed to associate with White Americans. Segregation allowed for white people to distinguish themselves as being the classier subjects in the world. They did not have to work for what they wanted rather they forced slaves, African Americans, to do the manual labor. In Douglas Brinkley’s book Rosa Parks, Brinkley analyzes protesters who were out to her Rosa Parks, “Although federal judge Frank Johnson had ordered Governor Wallace to refrain from ‘harassing and threatening’ the protesters, they were nevertheless met near the capitol by a horde of angry whites, many of who recognized Parks and began jeering ‘you’re the culprit Rosa,’ and ‘you’ll get yours Rosa Parks.’” Protesters were told not to harass and threaten African Americans. But, the whites did not listen to the government and decided to act out on their own and take jabs at African Americans, Rosa Parks being the main victim.
For countless years of her life, she dreamed of a world where people could drink out of the same water fountain, girls and boys could attend the same school, and whites and blacks could ride on a bus without being kicked off. Considering that Margaret Wade-Lewis’s article “I Remember Rosa Parks: The Impact of Segregation states “in the days of segregation, our lives were totally ‘us and them,’” it makes it clear that African Americans were only allowed to associate with African Americans and White Americans were only allowed to associate with White Americans. Segregation allowed for white people to distinguish themselves as being the classier subjects in the world. They did not have to work for what they wanted rather they forced slaves, African Americans, to do the manual labor. In Douglas Brinkley’s book Rosa Parks, Brinkley analyzes protesters who were out to her Rosa Parks, “Although federal judge Frank Johnson had ordered Governor Wallace to refrain from ‘harassing and threatening’ the protesters, they were nevertheless met near the capitol by a horde of angry whites, many of who recognized Parks and began jeering ‘you’re the culprit Rosa,’ and ‘you’ll get yours Rosa Parks.’” Protesters were told not to harass and threaten African Americans. But, the whites did not listen to the government and decided to act out on their own and take jabs at African Americans, Rosa Parks being the main victim.