How Does Rosa Parks Demonstrate Social Class

This quote demonstrates the hard time African-Americans had when they were trying to be equal to the white people at the time because when they were both on the train on their way to go get new jobs,, the white people on the train got upset about that and got the black people on the train to get kicked off. The second way that a bad situation turns to a worse one is when Rosa is explaining the situation in which two young teens from New Jersey were put in jail for a short period of time for sitting in the white section of the bus. “They boarded a city bus and took seats in the white section. The driver, S. T. Lock, drew his pistol on them and police also, because the two teenagers were arrested and held in jail for two days. This was July of
The way that one is treated due to their social class is seen while Rosa Parks is being arrested because while the situation is going down she asked one of them why they push around black people so much and he didn’t know, just because it was the law, they did. “I was tired of giving in to white people. “I’m going to have to have you arrested,” the driver said. “You may do that,” I answered. Two policemen came. I asked one of them. “Why do you all push us around?” He answered, “I don’t know, but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” (Parks, 1) This quote is a good example of how your social class shows how you are treated because the policemen do not know why they treat black people like that, they just treat them like that because of their skin colour. This treatment due to social class was seen again later on in the book where Rosa is explaining how it was a humiliation to have to take the buses most day to go and work for white people. “It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.” (109). This quote demonstrates that black people are treated so poorly to the point of humiliation due to their social class being lower than those of white people. The situation of