Rosa Parks And Rosa Parks

On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, written by Henry David Thoreau, explains that civil disobedience is the act of standing for your beliefs even though they are against the law. Thoreau goes on to say that the government (because it is ruled by the majority) is not always right for everyone especially the individual and the minority. Over the course of American history, there have been many different groups formed for the purpose of civil disobedience. The two that I am going to focus on are the activists of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panthers of the Black Liberation Movement. The Civil Rights Movement began in 1954 with the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education. It was basically lead by Martin Luther King Jr.

As a few white passengers boarded the bus and the white sections were already full so the driver shouted back at four black people including Rosa Parks “Move y'all, I want those two seats”. As this demand was made by the driver 3 of the bus riders obeyed to what was shouted back, however Rosa Parks remained in her seat and was determined not to move. She was arrested following the bus drivers order and fined ten dollars. This, however small incited a great wave of bus boycotts which in Montgomery black people chose not to ride the bus for a period of 381 days. This still to date is known as the moment in which the civil rights movement started to gain headway. It was the will of one woman who decided it was time for black people to take a stand and from this point on Martin Luther King was assigned to take this boycott on. Although he was assigned to take this on people also felt as he was young, fresh and people had not formulated enough of an opinion of him, there was little room for him to be hated yet so he posed as the right figure to lead this. After the many days of boycotting the case of this transport issue in Alabama went to the Supreme Court. Here it was decided that segregation was declared as unconstitutional so segregation by law was no

During the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King highlighted the effectiveness of peaceful resistance. When Parks refused to leave a bus seat upon demand of a white man, she was arrested for civil disobedience. Such a simple action triggered a 381-day boycott of public buses and furthered the growing movement. King later described this movement in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” where he explained the bombings that drew him to Birmingham, and how he would peacefully pursue a solution through large-scale civil disobedience. Both Parks and King peacefully revealed injustice to the public, and the violent responses from their opponents allowed the media to highlight the impacts of segregation, mainly poverty, physical threats, and verbal prejudice. Again, civil disobedience broadened social inequality, while also reducing the violence, poverty, and discrimination that African Americans experienced, increasing their involvement in modern government and the overall equality of the

Cvil Disobedience is best described as "the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest" (Google). The question however is not whether these protests are right or wrong but whether or not this peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impacts a free society. In the case of Rosa Parks during the civl rights era, civil disobedience was the most effective and perhaps the only way to bring about change in the context of racial inequality occurring at the time. When Ms. Parks, a Black Woman, refused to give up her seat to a White Male on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama she was arrested for violating Jim Cow laws. Her arrest sparked outrage in the Black community.

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.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white person. Rosa Parks is quoted as saying, "I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated." Her act of civil disobedience led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the emergence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a powerful leader in the fight for civil rights, all powerful symbols of the civil rights movement. (Crowe, n.d.)

One hundred days after Emmett Till's murder, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, sparking the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott. “

In Alabama, there used to be a segregation law where African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus. If a white person happens to be on a bus where the seats are full, an African American would have to stand and allow that person to have the seat instead. In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused in a calm manner when the bus driver asked her and other passengers of colour to give up their seats, she was then arrested and sent to jail. After this, Martin Luther King Jr. arranged a bus boycott. After 13 months of boycotting, the U.S. Supreme Court to finally ruled the bus segregation law as unconstitutional, the act of civil disobedience was ultimately successful.

This act of peaceful disobedience was one of the acts that started the Civil Rights Movement that eventually created equality between blacks and whites in the United States. Though there is still conflicts between blacks and whites in today’s time, there is an equal opportunity for everyone in public areas, job markets, and educational environments. This equality would not be possible if Rosa Parks would have not refused to give up her seat.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, lived a life filled with tragedy. Poe was an American writer, considered part of the Romantic Movement; he became an accomplished poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic, and gained worldwide fame for his dark and gruesome tales of horror (Quinn). Although his writings were well received, Poe struggled financially. He was one of the earliest American writers to focus on the short story and has been credited with inventing the detective fiction genre (Quinn). He is known for great short stories like “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven.” He died in 1849 from unknown causes; some guess that he was an alcoholic, while others suggest that he may have committed suicide (Quinn).

Disobedience and Rebellion are human traits that promote social progress in our society. For example, the Civil Rights movement was a time where social equality was not present and in order for it to be obtained, rebellion and disobedience had to be used. Rosa Parks was a civil rights activists who caused The Montgomery Bus Boycott. This event occurred because Rosa Parks had rejected to give up her seat to a white person which was widely frowned upon. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political protest that went against the segregation policy of the transport system and occurred from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. On all city transportation in Montgomery, African Americans were to remain in the back of all trains and buses so whenever Rosa Parks had sat in the front it caused major upheaval. Many people had claimed that Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat because she was tired but according to Rosa Parks, “I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a

Because of the outcome of the Brown case a lot of African Americans took matter into their own hands and wanted to end forms of racial segregation. December 1st, 1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress and a NAACP activist denied giving up her seat to a white man. This caused mayhem and sparked a bus boycott due to the fact that Rosa Parks got arrested for not wanting to get up. This was a tactic that the civil rights movement leaders used to stop racial discrimination between blacks and whites in the United States. After more than a year of conflict, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the complete desegregation of Montgomery buses. (Hewitt and Lawson

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