Rosa Parks Research Paper

During the years 1954 through 1968, times were hard for african american people. In Alabama, african american people did not have access to the same equipment and things that white people had. When going to places, africans could only go to certain areas in certain places, or they would get arrested. For example, some places and things that required you to be white to get the better quality were school's, restrooms, water fountains, and restaurants. African american people would be discriminated, and racism scattered all over Alabama. During these hard times, african americans would wear the usual regular clothes, which were denim jeans, blue jeans, and regular T-shirts. African american people would also dress decent because when protesting
in the streets for civil rights, they wanted whites to see them as people so that they could be treated with equal respect. During these years of the civil rights movements, not a lot of african americans would get jobs. This is because white people did not like african americans and would not like to see them serving them food, or being near them. During these hard years for african americans, the unemployment rate grew higher when it came to an african american trying to get a job. There were very low chances of an african american getting a job, because schools would segregate african american children and white children. Normally, african american children would have to sit in the back of their classrooms, which would prevent them from learning. Seeing how they learned their subjects, made white people reconsider when giving african american people jobs. Since african american people did not have jobs, they had no choice but to live in the streets. It was hard to find a home when you were african american because whites hated africans, and would be disgusted when looking at them. For the african american people that did have a home, job, and family, they would often protest. These african americans would protest because when working, they knew that they would get ugly looks from whites, and peaceful protesting could change that. Protesting was a risk that many african americans were willing to take. They would know that they would get arrested, or worse, beaten. Following their leader, Martin Luther King Junior, they would peacefully protest until all whites treated them equally and respected them. Since police men and women were often white, the effects on protesting would not be pretty. Marching on the streets of Alabama was an everyday thing for african americans. On December 1, 1955 Mrs.
Rosa parks had changed history. Rosa parks was born on February 4, 1913, and died October 24, 2005, at the age 92. Rosa Parks had a very exciting childhood, and had only one sibling. On December 1, 1995, while riding a bus, Mrs.Parks refused to give her seat to a white man, which was against Alabama's racial segregation laws. Because Mrs.Parks was african american, she had to move off of her seat. When Mrs.Parks refused to give her seat to a white man, the bus driver had told her to get off, but she refused. Consequently, Mrs.parks was arrested and she influenced towards the new movement called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a period of about 381 days, which included more than 90% of african americans not riding the bus. The Montgomery Bus Boycott left a lot of white people unhappy. After the long period of not riding the bus, profits were low. Bus drivers did not make as much money as they did before the bus boycott started. Because bus profits were so low, the government had no choice, but to charge an even higher tax on taxi cars and on public buses. The government had ordered taxi drivers to now charge forty five cents per person, and if they refused they would go to jail. When Rosa parks was in jail,(which she lasted only one night in) Jo Ann Robinson (one of the first leaders of the boycott) had stayed up all night working on flyers that she had planned to hang up about the boycott. When Rosa Parks had finally gone out of jail, she was surprised that her actions took such great impact on society. Once Mrs.Parks had continued to protest, black churches across the country had donated shoes to protesters. They had donated shoes to protesters because they knew that protesting involved a lot of walking , and that wore out shoes. Rosa Parks was important during the civil rights movement because she proved that no matter what race you are, you have the right to stand up for your rights no matter what it
takes.