Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. – Rosa Parks
If we look at our beautiful country we can tell there is a divide and a major one at that; which is separation. From the early United States to the present there has been a separation between us Americans. Unfortunately, we cannot all be one because there is always someone who opposes, and from one becomes two to four and so one. It takes a major catastrophe for all of us Americans to unite and be one until then we are at war with ourselves. Rosa Parks said the quote above in 1998 to Courtland Milloy a Washington Post columnist. This was 43 years after her actions in Montgomery, Alabama where racism …show more content…
Board of education in 1953 was a groundbreaking Supreme Court case. This case argued that separate but equal was not indeed separate but equal. Schools were separate, but designated black schools were run down compared to white schools. Linda Brown was an elementary school aged African American girl that had to travel nine miles away from her interracial neighborhood to go to an all black school. Even though there was a school near her home she was denied admittance because it was an all white school. It was finally brought up and it changed the way we saw things, it gave us another perspective. Even though some saw nothing wrong with this kind of events others joined and rallied together because this had racism written all over it. It was a massive win for attorney Thurgood Marshall, who in the years to follow became the America’s first black justice. This was not the only case there was which brings us to the Little Rock …show more content…
He was kidnapped and tortured and eventually killed because he whistled at a white woman at a store. This action and the trial of the two proposed guilty men made people rally with the civil rights movement because of the injustice verdict. Even though they later were boasting about their malicious crime they did. Emmett Tills mother wanted the world to see what had happened to her little boy that she had an open casket at his funeral. His photograph was viewed nationwide adding more support to the civil rights movement from both parties. The white people who finally realized what was going on and wanted to make a difference and the black people who knew this was an ongoing issue. There key leaders in this movement that made a positive impact on the civil rights movement following a nonviolent method.
Rosa Parks was one of the major civil rights activists that played a big role in the movement. She stood up for what she was believed was right something that was uncommon to other people. That she refused to obey the bus driver of giving up her seat on a bus for a white person who was boarding on. Now Rosa Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up their seat because before her their other people who also stood up and said no more. Once she did this though it gained a lot of support and
If we look at our beautiful country we can tell there is a divide and a major one at that; which is separation. From the early United States to the present there has been a separation between us Americans. Unfortunately, we cannot all be one because there is always someone who opposes, and from one becomes two to four and so one. It takes a major catastrophe for all of us Americans to unite and be one until then we are at war with ourselves. Rosa Parks said the quote above in 1998 to Courtland Milloy a Washington Post columnist. This was 43 years after her actions in Montgomery, Alabama where racism …show more content…
Board of education in 1953 was a groundbreaking Supreme Court case. This case argued that separate but equal was not indeed separate but equal. Schools were separate, but designated black schools were run down compared to white schools. Linda Brown was an elementary school aged African American girl that had to travel nine miles away from her interracial neighborhood to go to an all black school. Even though there was a school near her home she was denied admittance because it was an all white school. It was finally brought up and it changed the way we saw things, it gave us another perspective. Even though some saw nothing wrong with this kind of events others joined and rallied together because this had racism written all over it. It was a massive win for attorney Thurgood Marshall, who in the years to follow became the America’s first black justice. This was not the only case there was which brings us to the Little Rock …show more content…
He was kidnapped and tortured and eventually killed because he whistled at a white woman at a store. This action and the trial of the two proposed guilty men made people rally with the civil rights movement because of the injustice verdict. Even though they later were boasting about their malicious crime they did. Emmett Tills mother wanted the world to see what had happened to her little boy that she had an open casket at his funeral. His photograph was viewed nationwide adding more support to the civil rights movement from both parties. The white people who finally realized what was going on and wanted to make a difference and the black people who knew this was an ongoing issue. There key leaders in this movement that made a positive impact on the civil rights movement following a nonviolent method.
Rosa Parks was one of the major civil rights activists that played a big role in the movement. She stood up for what she was believed was right something that was uncommon to other people. That she refused to obey the bus driver of giving up her seat on a bus for a white person who was boarding on. Now Rosa Parks was not the first person to refuse to give up their seat because before her their other people who also stood up and said no more. Once she did this though it gained a lot of support and