Rosa Parks's Ain T I A Woman

Have you ever heard of Rosa Parks? She stood up for what she believed in when she wouldn’t get up for the white man. Even tho she had to move it showed segregation against black females. In the poems and speeches “Ain’t I A Woman”, “The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”, and “Women’s Wages are Lower Due to Occupational Segregation” it talks about how black women or white women were not treated fairly against men. Have men and women achieved equality over the past 150 years? The first poetic speech is ‘Aint I A Woman” by Sojourner Truth in 1851. In paragraph 2 it says “The man over there says women need to be helped into carriages. Nobody helps me into carriages.” She is saying that men don’t have the respect for women to help them into carriages or even help them over puddles. In paragraph 2,3, and 4 it says the quote “And ain’t I A woman?” In the paragraphs it says this she talks about life problems she is facing and at the end of the day no man has helped her out. In paragraph 5 it says “Then that little man in the black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men ‘Cause Christ wasn’t a woman!” Women should have equal …show more content…
In paragraph 3 it says “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she has no voice.” The man didn’t let the women do as she wanted. She was forced to. In paragraph 11 it says “He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education-all colleges being closed against her.” It is basically saying that women weren’t aloud to get a good education at a colleges. In paragraph 12 it says “He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.” Men lowered women’s self-esteem and always tried putting them down.This story shows how women had few rights and were controlled by