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Rosa Parks Impact On Society

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Peaceful resistance to laws is both negative and positive impact for a free society.¨Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.¨ One night Rosa Parks got on the bus after a long day of work and the bus started filling up with a bunch of white people. The bus driver pulled over and told Rosa to give up her seat for a white person but she refused. The negative outcome of this is that she got arrested and got charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. Rosa Parks lost a lot of things because of her decision but she was known as a hero. The positive impact was that she was awarded many awards. …show more content…

She was know as a hero for the african americans. If you look at what one person can have so much power of there really can't be a negative impact for a free society. If you look at The Help, a book by Kathryn Stockett there is a woman, Miss Skeeter, in the book and she decides to write a novel and interviews a bunch of black maids and write their stories about what it's like working for white woman. At first none of the maids wanted to because they were afraid that they would get killed or lose their jobs. Later on she gets 13 maids that agree to being interviewed. She publishes the book anonymously. In the book it is a maid up town and all the maids had different names and different stories. Somehow someone finds out that she wrote it and about all the maids with their stories and who they were talking about. Most of the maid don't get caught or get fired but some of the maide suffer consequences. When the decided to get interviewed they knew something bad could happen if everyone found out who the stories were about and who was telling them. They didn't seem to care because they wanted to make a change in their society and that was the only way they could get a little bit

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