Comparing Marian's Revolution 'And The Few' By Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges are different from each other, but also similar. They both stood up for something very important, they both thought that segregation and racism were very bad. Rosa parks would not get up from her seat so that a white person could sit down and she would have to stand up. Ruby Bridges went to school that was full of white people and took all the segregation. They both showed acts of courage and bravery.

That, however, did not apply to Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks experienced the same thing that Martin Luther King Jr. and other African-Americans experienced during the Civil Rights Movement; she had to go through the same things every other African-American experienced, such as sitting at the back of the bus. On buses, African-Americans and Americans had different sections to sit in: African-Americans were forced to sit in the back seats, while Americans had the benefit of sitting at the front of the bus. One day, Rosa Parks, an African-American, had enough pride in herself to sit at the front of the bus. When she was told to move by an American who wanted her seat, she refused. Despite being sent to jail for her actions, Rosa Parks performed a small act of pride that had the biggest impact. The pride she held for her race spoke out to everyone, whatever the race or gender, which makes Rosa Parks such a critical historical figure.

Rosa Parks is, apart from Martin Luther King Jr., arguably one of the most important figures of the civil rights movement. Her most notable protest is considered to be when she refused to change seats in a bus when a white man approached her and expected her to move due to the social norms of that time period. This led to a newsworthy story, and brought attention to the extreme discrimination that black people endured. Not only did Rosa Parks stand for black people's rights, she also stood for women's rights by standing up to the patriarchy and fighting against a white man. Her use of civil disobedience allowed her to effectively fight against the racial prejudice to which she was subjected,

Rosa Parks refused to get up and give up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was arrested and fined for standing up for herself and equal rights for her race. She was the spark to the Civil Rights movement. She started a bus boycott that lasted for fifteen days straight. This boycott is when black people took a stand and fought for the better seats on the buses. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of these boycott leaders that later became a very inspirational speaker during this movement. They refused to move for someone that thought they were superior to blacks because of their skin color. Rosa’s hearing lasted three hundred and eighty-one days. The Supreme Court made the final decision to integrate the buses in order to make the rights equal for everyone.

She said that the petition led to the Montgomery bus Boycott, whereby the black people avoided using public transport. She was once quoted saying, “For a little more than a year, we stayed off those busses. We did not return to using public

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Rosa Parks had been arrested in 1955. She was arrested because she refused to move out of her set on the bus, the people told her that she was not aloud to sit at the sit that she was sitting at. She did not think it was right for them to tell her that she couldn’t sit at the set that she was sitting in just because of what color she was. She would rather go to jail to prove a point then move out of that set. I think that is pretty incredible of she to fight of she freedom.

Rosa Parks definitely didn’t know everything about civil rights and civil liberties when she refused to give up her seat on the bus, but she did it anyways. After the Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed by the Supreme Court. This Amendment indicates “No state shall make or enforce any law abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person or life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within it jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” It was shortly after this that the Court gave a decision on “Plessy v. Ferguson” which required separate facilities for blacks and whites. The term “separate but equal” haunted many African Americans during this time.

(Sigmond) Rosa refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama on a city bus in 1955. Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the US. (Weeks) When Rosa was on the city bus the driver told her to get up and she didn’t, the driver told her he’d call the police so he did, she got arrest and she was proud of what she did. (Interview-Rosa)

Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was forced to put up with racial discrimination consistently throughout her entire life. On December 1st 1955, she had finally had enough and was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. This courageous act inspired a community to partake in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Although Rosa had become a symbol of the civil rights movement, she and her husband suffered from her acts and she had to continue to overcome many hardships. Her story is inspiring to anyone who hears of it, because she did not let her setbacks in life hold her down or crush her amazing spirit.

Rosa Parks is one of the most famous activist of the civil rights movement, and just like all good and successful activists she was arrested once. However, the arrest was no surprise to Parks, since it was discussed and planned before it went down. Nevertheless, it was a big surprise to the black and white communities alike given that Parks was a very calm and respected woman. Surprisingly, those traits are the ones that put parks in jail in the first

Martin Luther King Jr. is an idol for most people; Rosa Parks was one of them. She admired his bold integrity to stand up for what is right in equality. Dr. King was a light to the world, because people wanted things to change, but they were afraid. They did not want to be arrested or attacked. They could boycott. They could refuse to ride the buses. That would cost the city a lot of money. The city and bus officials would not like that. This was a way Dr. King was standing up for Rosa. I added Dr. King to Rosa’s friends, because I felt he made a great impact on her life. If it weren’t for Martin Luther King’s heroic act in taking charge of the situation, Rosa Parks may have been in jail longer than intended, with a possible worse penalty.

First, Rosa Parks was a courageous person. It was very hard to stick up for yourself and courageous in a segregated city exspesially in for the colored people. That’s why it was such a big deal when Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955 had enough courage to stick up for herself. She said she would not give up her seat on the bus to a white man. Even though in the Montgomery law it said that if the first ten rows of seats on the bus are filled it is required for someone in

“Before the end of the school year, over 1500 black demonstrators were arrested.” (USHistory.org, 2016) Fortunately, their sacrifice brought results. The slow process of abandoning the restaurants’ policies of segregation began throughout the South. People in America could not handle with the segregation so many protests arose against it. One of the turning points in U.S. history on the way of desegregation was the Rosa Parks protest. It was well known that the condition of division black people from white people was unbearable. Mrs. Parks as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a person associated with the Civil Rights Movement in the South during the 1960s. Many years later she shared her thoughts: “Four decades later I am still uncomfortable with the credit given to me for starting the bus boycott. I would like (people) to know I was not the only person involved. I was just one of many who fought for freedom.”(C N Trueman "Rosa Parks”, May 19, 2018) On the first of December in 1955, she obeyed the bus driver James Blake's demand to give up her seat to a white passenger. Having refused to do that request resulted in her arrest and trials. Thus, the authorities woke the beast in the face of the society of black people. All this resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the largest movement against racial segregation in history which gained a success. Due to her role in American history, Rosa Parks earned a status of leader in American culture. What is more, her actions influenced an overwhelming impact for civil rights movements in America and around the world. Her method was not violent. She used peaceful resistance for fighting for equality and resolution of oppression. She was sure that her action was not done on her own behalf but on the behalf of the whole black