Civil Rights
...laws of segregation for years and years to finally be thought of as equals. They fought to earn their civil rights which is were the movement got its name from. There are many names that stand out when you think of the Civil Rights Movement, for example, Martin Luther King Jr. who lead a march to Washington and gave the famous “I have a Dream” speech, and there is also Rosa Parks who refused to sit in the back of the bus and render her seat to a white person. They are all interconnected in one way or another, with each of their actions and teachings influencing each other, and finally after a great deal of years they reached equality and desegregation.
For one woman her act of defiance against the oppression of segregations was in the form of refusing her spot on the bus and not following the rules of segregation in the bus system by sitting in the back. The day was the first of December 1955 and Mrs. Rosa Parks was on her way home after preparing a seminar for the NAACP. Along with everything else the bus system was segregated as well, whites in the front and blacks in the back and if a white person wanted a seat a black person had to give theirs up. She sat in the front row in the back of the bus for the blacks and when more people got on the bus she along with other African Americans were told to move back, but she didn’t. The bus driver was forced to call the police and when they arrived she was hauled of to jail like a criminal. The day of her trial, December 5th 1955, the MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association) started a boycott against the bus system which lasted a year and because of her actions buses were no longer to be segregated as of November 13, 1956 after the Supreme Court ruled it to be unconstitutional. After her decision to refuse her seat and the actions done by the local police and the ruling of the Supreme Court the Civil Rights Movement...
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