Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. “Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love… that’s the goal we seek. And I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.” Picture this, Monday December 1, 1955, 5:30, and forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks had just got done working hard as a tailor’s assistant. (Aretha 11). She boarded the city bus in Court Square, and in 1955 the first 10 seats on every Montgomery city bus were reserved for white people only. Montgomery city law stated that blacks could sit anywhere behind the white only section; they could be compelled to surrender their seat for a white passenger only if another was available in the black section. (Hull) Slavery was outlawed
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By default she was elected as secretary, but she was so shy that she later said no to the position. She stayed at a volunteer position for the next 12 years, arranged meetings, mailed letters, made payments, answered phones, and issued press releases. She thrived, though the work was demanding. It was her hobby, something she could put her energy and she education into, everyone knew she was truly dedicated. Of all the cases that Rosa dealt with, one in particular stuck out, Recy Taylor. Miss Taylor was walking back from church when a car pulled up nect to her. The car was filled with six white men who drug her into the car at gun point. The six men ripped her clothes off and took turns raping her. Even though the driver confessed and gave out the names of all the men that participated a grand jury declared that all men involved were innocent. Rosa knew this was going to be one of the greatest difficulties that the NAACP would have to overcome. They were all white southern men and women of the jury, who would not convict whites of being violent against blacks. But if the tables were turned and blacks were accused of being any kind of violent towards whites they out be convicted with only the tiniest bit of evidence. The Scottsboro Boys case for example, they were …show more content…
She had been suffering from dementia foe several years. 50 years earlier, she didn’t know that just by sitting down and refusing to stand, she would change many lives. “ Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spoke for many black Americans when he told the Press that he felt a personal connection with Rosa, adding, ‘She stood up by sitting down. I’m only standing here because of her.’ Rosa may have disagreed.” On October 27 the United States Senate Honored Rosa by allowing her body to be buried in the United States capitol. Her funeral was on November 2nd, and 50,000 people came to pay their respects. Rosa was buried between her husband and mother, and her is simply engraved “Rosa L. Parks, Wife, 1913-2005.” Rosa was a true inspiration, and she truly changed the United States. If you stop and think where we might be if she moved from her seat when she was asked, or if she abided by the segregation rules, Blacks might still be battling for their rights
By default she was elected as secretary, but she was so shy that she later said no to the position. She stayed at a volunteer position for the next 12 years, arranged meetings, mailed letters, made payments, answered phones, and issued press releases. She thrived, though the work was demanding. It was her hobby, something she could put her energy and she education into, everyone knew she was truly dedicated. Of all the cases that Rosa dealt with, one in particular stuck out, Recy Taylor. Miss Taylor was walking back from church when a car pulled up nect to her. The car was filled with six white men who drug her into the car at gun point. The six men ripped her clothes off and took turns raping her. Even though the driver confessed and gave out the names of all the men that participated a grand jury declared that all men involved were innocent. Rosa knew this was going to be one of the greatest difficulties that the NAACP would have to overcome. They were all white southern men and women of the jury, who would not convict whites of being violent against blacks. But if the tables were turned and blacks were accused of being any kind of violent towards whites they out be convicted with only the tiniest bit of evidence. The Scottsboro Boys case for example, they were …show more content…
She had been suffering from dementia foe several years. 50 years earlier, she didn’t know that just by sitting down and refusing to stand, she would change many lives. “ Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spoke for many black Americans when he told the Press that he felt a personal connection with Rosa, adding, ‘She stood up by sitting down. I’m only standing here because of her.’ Rosa may have disagreed.” On October 27 the United States Senate Honored Rosa by allowing her body to be buried in the United States capitol. Her funeral was on November 2nd, and 50,000 people came to pay their respects. Rosa was buried between her husband and mother, and her is simply engraved “Rosa L. Parks, Wife, 1913-2005.” Rosa was a true inspiration, and she truly changed the United States. If you stop and think where we might be if she moved from her seat when she was asked, or if she abided by the segregation rules, Blacks might still be battling for their rights