How Did Rosa Parks Affect The Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks a Civil rights activist experienced enormous racial discrimination throughout her life. In 1943, Rosa went to register to vote and at the time african-Amercicans had to pass a literacy test for her to register. She was told she passed, but her voting card never came. Mrs. Parks went back, Rosa was told that she had failed but couldn’t see her results of her test. A year later she went back to take the test again and this time she hand copied the questions and answers She would have proof that of course she took the test, Rosa Parks had received her card.

Although Rosa Parks was not the only one feeling discriminated. If an African-American comes on the bus, they have to pay at the front, then get off and re-board at the back doors. When there is no more seats in the front of the bus, the bus driver is allowed to move the sign that divides whites and African-Americans back. Unfortunately African-Americans would have to give up their seat.
At the age of 42-years-old Mrs. Parks, worked as an assistant tailor at a department store. Coming home the bus Mrs. Parks was riding started to get full, eventually “the driver noticed that several white passenger
Rosa was not the first African-American woman to be arrested, therefore the evening of her arrest Mr. Nixon, head of the local NAACP, began to create and organized a boycott. African-Americans were asked not to ride the city buses on the day of Mrs. Parks’s trial. The bus boycott had become an enormous success. The loyalty of the African-American community not riding the buses, some would walk at least twenty miles to go to work. Others would carpool or stay home from work or school. Several months went by, with busses sitting loosing there business. There were many attempts to somehow end the boycott. During the period of the boycotts many churches and homes were bombed. Individuals who were resentful of the boycott may have been