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Rosa Parks Research Paper

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Civil Rights One can only imagine the trials and tribulations that went on during the early 1950’s all the way up to the late 1960’s; today this time period is known throughout the nation as the time of civil rights. People can try to think back to a time when they felt deprived of what they saw as a basic right, but will never truly understand what it was like to be someone of a different race and live in America in that period. There is one person who knew this feeling all too well, among many other, her name is Rosa Parks. During the civil rights age, many people went through very similar conflicts just like Parks, these atrocious situations let to the formation and passing of many of the laws and rights that we still use and enforce …show more content…

For starters, Parks was born on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She soon married her husband Raymond Parks and decided to make her living as a seamstress. On December 1, 1955, Parks chose to find a seat in the middle section of the bus after a long and trying day. For this particular section both whites and blacks were permitted to sit, but if a white person was to aboard the bus then that black person must move. There were also seats at the very back of the bus specifically for those of color and seats at the front of the bus for those who were white. On this particular day Rosa, chose to sit in the mixed section of the bus and when she was approached by a white person who wanted to sit in the seat she was in she was suppose to move. Parks chose not to give up her seat to a white man and therefore was penalized for it. Directly following this incident, she was arrested for not handing over her seat to a white man which was in direct violation of the racial segregation laws during this time. Parks later served time in the local jail for a crime that we today would see as very small and barely an issue. This event aided in pushing the masses in wanted to see a change in the way they were treated and as a result it is a direct cause of the Montgomery Bus

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