The Holocaust: Rosa Parks And The Civil Rights Movement

Have you ever thought of what it would feel like to be treated differently than others because your skin color was different. On December 1, 1955 a regular civil rights activist black woman was coming home from her job and got on an ordinary bus. She sat in the back in the section for black people. The bus kept filling and filling and the bus driver noticed that they were several white people standing. He stopped the bus and moved the black people sign back a row. The blacks who were sitting in that row gave up their seat to the white people but Rosa Parks refused. The bus driver asked her, “Why don’t you stand up?” and she replied, “I don’t think I should have to stand up.” (A&E Television Networks 1) The driver called the police and had her arrested. By standing up for what she believed in Parks can be connected to how the jews did during the Holocaust. Although many people back then did not want anything to do with blacks, I think that Parks not giving up her seat was a brave act to do because that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. …show more content…
People discriminated blacks because they’re different from the rest of the world. People discriminated Jews because they did not believe that Jesus was our savior. They both fought for what they believed in and for freedom. They were all courageous and risked their lives so the next generations to come would live freely and so they could live better lives. Sofka Skipwith was a Russian princess who saved Jews, while she was incarcerated in the Vittel camp in France. Jeanne Daman was a Belgian teacher who was outraged by the persecution of the Jews and joined a rescue network. Johanna Eck was a housewife who hid Jews in her small apartment. (Yad Vashem 1) Not only did Parks affect the world by her actions, but so did the victims of the Holocaust by how they spoke out to the world about what had happened to