End of Segregation

Legislation, Supreme Court decisions, and the March on Washington, clearly has led to more activism in order to achieve more equality for African Americans. Without these and other movements of the Civil Rights era, discrimination or even slavery might still exist today. More work is still needed to eliminate all forms of discrimination. It is up to the American society to persevere and strive to eliminate all forms of discrimination for African Americans and to not regress into former ways

I saw her on the bus every day. Though not old, she seemed tired. I thought of all the things she must have done that day. Knowing she needed the seat more than I did, I sat still, hoping somebody else would. During 1955, no black men tried to stand against us. As a white citizen, it was normal to see black people being mistreated. Not all white people hated or disliked the black people, but none took any action. I no longer wanted to partake in such racism. When I heard the news about Rosa Parks boycotting the bus on December 5, it triggered something in my heart. Racism is never the right decision, and everyone should be treated with respect.

She was a strong and determined civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. She believed in rights for African Americans and had hope for the future she wanted. And when she refused to give up her seat, the bus driver had her arrested. She was later asked about her bold act, and said that “my refusal wasn’t because I was physically tired, but that I was tired of giving in.” Her attitude towards this dilemma sparked a rebellion against the oppression that was put upon African Americans and was called the Montgomery boycott. Which was when the black population of Montgomery boycotted the same bus company that racially discriminated Rosa Parks. This historical event was to be considered victorious, as 40,000 African Americans opted to walk to work instead of riding the bus, some even as far 20 miles. Without Rosa’s optimism today, who knows where we would be? Her optimism has shaped our world for the better by instilling hope for the cure of cancer that plagues this world. Racial

In Spite of the devastating history of segregation in the United States. A lot has changed in the past fifty years since segregation ended. The United States shifted from arresting African Americans for using “white only” facilities to integrated schools all over the country. Influential individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr helped pave the way for African Americans to live as equals to along with their white counterparts in the United States of America.

On Thursday evening December 1, 1955, Rosa boards a Montgomery City Bus to go home after a long day working as a seamstress. She walks back to the section for blacks, and takes a seat. The law stated that they could sit there if no White people were standing. Rosa parks never liked segregation rules and has been fighting against them for more than ten years in the NAACP, but until then had never broke any of the unjust rules. As the bus stops at more places, more white people enter the bus, all the seats in the “White Only” section was filled and the bus driver orders Rosa’s row to move to the back of the bus, they all moved, accept Rosa. She was arrested and fined for violating a city regulation. This act of defiance began a movement that ended legal Segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom devoted people everywhere.

Rosa Parks faced a lot of challenges in her life like being african american.Challenges she had to face was like being called discrimination words.Rosa was pushed around because she was african american.If a white person wanted something she owned she pretty much had to give it to them.White people could go out and kill a black person if they wanted to and not get even a little bit if trouble for it.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the ‘colored section’ inside the bus to a white passenger, and this went against the customs at the time. As a result of the arrest, Montgomery black community initiated a bus boycott that lasted for more than a year.

The African Americans were forced to sit in the back while the white could sit anywhere, even take their seat away if their isn't any left. One day, a African American named Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus and was sent to jail for her acts of civil disobedience. The reason she was sent to jail was for her act of breaking the rules, but her acting disobedience lead to boycotts and launched to the freedom and justice for African Americans. The reason for Rosa Parks stood up for herself and others. She helped others receive the same treatment as the whites do. Even though she risked herself by breaking rules and she was sent to jail. The people who were against her thought she broke a rule and she labeled her a disobedience, but instead she broke the line between the African Americans and whites. Rosa Parks was served as a symbol of what is possible to stand up, even if she was the only one

King’s methods of peaceful protest regarding the white moderate I found to be impressive. Dr. King knew a change in society was inevitable. He knew the African American had been pushed to their limits; they had been stretched too thin. He knew he could use his gift and channel all those centuries of emotions in a positive way to make a change, if not, change would come in another form, a form of violence. Dr. King states “The Negro has many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations. He has to get them out. So let him march sometime; let him have his prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; understand why he must have sit-ins and freedom rides. If his repressed emotions do not come out in these nonviolent ways, they will come out in ominous expressions of violence” ( King). Yet, the white moderate would say , "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action" or for them to wait for a more convenient season. I would be bewildered if ever placed in a situation like this. On one hand, you are told you are right, you and your people need equality and we are going to support you. On the other hand, they are telling you not to take action, it is not a good time, to wait until later. The white moderate, coming from the un-oppressed side, has no sense of urgency in the matter. From the outside looking in, I am trying to see what may have driven them to act in such a fashion. Perhaps they attempted to maintain a relative peace as they

Right now, students of the modern era, are able to go to school freely. What I mean is that anyone can go to the same school your white friends can go to. We are not segregated anymore, and now it doesn’t matter what your skin color is. Everyone is allowed equal education, and a chance for success. Before, this wasn’t allowed before. In the 1950s, schools were segregated. Whites and blacks went to different schools. But in 1960, Ruby Bridges, a black, walked into the first grade classroom in a school in New Orleans. She walked into an all white school. She was making history. Chaos occurred while she walked in and out of the school; people threw rocks and cussed at her. But, nothing stopped her from learning.

I think that it was a great thing that Rosa stood up for what she thought and didn’t stay quiet and she got what she wanted and was a really hard worker and many african americans were proud of here for that. Another great thing that Rosa did was didn’t care if she went to jail and she didn’t know that she was changing history all she cared about was getting home and all she wanted to do when she got on the bus and she had to move but she didn’t. On December 1 1955 Rosa parks did not want to give her seat up to a white man because she was so exhausted ( Rosa Parks 100th Birthday Paragraph 1).

During the time of the civil rights movement there was one lady who was courageous enough to stop going along with what the law says and her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was one of the few women who did not want to go along with the movement and wanted to stop it, however she was the only one who actually stood up. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. She is nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America.It all began when she was heading home while being on a bus. Her courageous act that she did marked the end of the segregation movement. The act that inspired others to boycott was refusing to surrender her seat to a white person since there weren't enough seats and other white people were already standing up. During that time, there were only about ten seats that were available for the colored people and the white people were the priorities first. If there was a colored person sitting on a seat while meanwhile there is a white person standing up, the colored person had to stand up and surrender his seat to the white person. Even though the colored people did not like it, they had to follow the law or if they didn’t then they would have to end up in jail and pay their fine.

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

Rosa Parks was the center of one of the greatest civil rights movements in the mid-20th-century. She became an icon due to her calm refusal to give up her seat to a white man, which triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott beginning in 1955 (Baggett, 2016). Rosa Parks acted with courage and stood up for what she believed in; paving the way for many American citizens to follow in her footsteps - or lack of footsteps. She stayed true to herself and inspired others to take similar courageous actions throughout the civil rights movement in America.

Forty-seven years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed to end racial discrimination in America. And later on the 24th Amendment to poll taxes, then the Voting Rights Act to allow every man to vote and not be discriminated against. Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Southern Christian Leadership conference were just some of the groups that tried to end segregation and promote the African American race. Although these groups did help end it, it still exists in today’s world and many studies have been done to prove it in the past couple of years.