Rosa Parks

segregate whites from nonwhites. When these laws were in place, blacks did not have the rights to go to the same schools as whites, live in the same neighborhood as whites, drink out of the same water fountains as whites, and were denied access to local parks and shops. Back then, everyone thought it was socially acceptable to be racist, and the few people that stood up to racism were faced with endless torture. Because it takes a big group of people to enact a positive change, a single individual’s courage

fight of about seventy years. Another example came before this when Blacks were attempting to gain the right to vote. Although not all demonstrations were peaceful ones, ones that were peaceful like Rosa Parks, sit-ins, and the Freedom Rides all performed civil disobedience. In the case of Rosa Parks, it was her refusing to give up her seat on the bus for a white female which was counting as disobeying the law and accepted the consequence of her being arrested. The sit-ins were when blacks would

The Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery bus boycott changed the way people lived and reacted to each other. The American civil rights movement began a long time ago, as early as the seventeenth century, with blacks and whites all protesting slavery together. The peak of the civil rights movement came in the 1950's starting with the successful bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. The civil rights movement was lead by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who preached nonviolence and love for your enemy

Diversity means a group of people who are different from other people to most people; however diversity isn’t a group of people because each and every one of us are unique through age, gender, races, ideas, imaginations, opinions, ethnics, religion, cultural beliefs, special talents, and a variety of other unique things. Diversity can offer many opportunities to businesses owners because as more immigrants enter the U.S. the more diverse our nation becomes one of the things immigrants bring is their

requested that four dark travelers surrender their seats. Three agreed, however Rosa declined and stayed situated. The driver requested, "Why not stand up?" to which Rosa answered, "I don't think I ought to need to hold up." The driver called the police and had her captured. Later, Rosa reviewed that her refusal wasn't on the grounds that she was physically drained, yet that she was worn out on giving in. The police captured Rosa at the scene and accused her of infringement of Chapter 6, Section 11, of

brave people that took part in Civil Disobedience. The sit ins, the taking of bus seats, Freedom Rides, marches, etc. helped gain a large group of people their well deserved rights. One of the most famous activists in the Civil Rights movement, Rosa Parks, said "you must never be fearful

What we want to accomplish is to make the audience feel all the emotions that surrounded all the African American community in the year 1913 and re-create the scene of Rosa parks and he's activist decision of my landing seat to a white person, show how Rosa Parks created his own justice by this act of civil right activist One other thing then we want to accomplish with this film is to give the message that if you are being discriminated you can always raise your voice to be heard and stand up for

Commonly, Rosa Park’s arrests for refusing to yield her seat on a bus for a White man is a popular misconception of being the primary stimulant that kindled the uproar of the historical boycott of Montgomery’s buses known today. Contrarily, unprecedented, racially provoked violence, and discriminative and segregated events prior to Parks’ conviction motivated leaders to organize their communities for the challenge to break barriers of government’s disregards to Negro’s rights and race equality. Parks

On December 1st, 1955, 42 year old Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a long work day. She sat in the front row of the "colored" section. As the "white" section of the bus filled up, the bus driver demanded that Parks move to the back of the bus. She refused to move and was arrested, but her actions helped spark change and inspired several social activists like Martin Luther King Jr and Medgar Evers to protest against racial discrimination. In To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee uses the characters

To start things off, being courageous is standing up for what is right. According to “An Act of Courage by Lauren Green” it explains how Rosa Parks argued that her seat was not reserved for white people. Rosa Parks was exemplary of courage because she stood up for what was right and tried to change this problem for the rest of the society. It also states how Parks was frustrated about the injustice of segregation. Without standing up for herself and bringing attention to this problem the world would