year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to go home from a tiring day at work. She sat on the ‘colored’ seats but as several other white passengers boarded‚ the driver asked them to give up their seats. The other African-Americans reluctantly gave up their seats but Rosa Parks refused and stayed seated. She was arrested for violating the Montgomery City Code and in her trial a week later‚ she was found guilty‚ fined $10 and assessed $4 court fee. One the same night as Rosa Parks was arrested
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The Civil Rights Movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968‚ was one of the most important times in American history. With activities‚ protest marches and boycotts‚ organizations challenged segregation and discrimination. The Movement happened because not all Americans were being treated in the same way. In general white Americans were treated better than any other American people‚ especially African-American people. The Civil Rights Movement made the country a more fair and humane society
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work in many jobs. Usually a job that paid well for them was working for someone else. Like Rosa Parks‚ she was discriminated for her color and was compelled by the whites to sit in the back of the public bus. The whites believed it was more accurate for them to sit ahead of the blacks‚ and the blacks to sit behind the whites. Until one day everything changed. A brave‚ humble woman named Rosa Parks had the courage to confront all the whites and sit ahead of the whites. Although the whites told
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Rosa parks was arrested in the 50s for sitting in a seat where she was not allowed to sit. The law was meant to treat people differently based upon the color of their skin. She felt that this was an unjust law and took a stand against it by breaking the law. Famous people like m.l.k‚ gandhi‚ and thoreau went against the law because they felt it was wrong and only way to fix that was to fix them self by breaking the law. Civil dis happens when people stand up for unjust laws without violent and demands
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happening during the Civil Rights Movement. Some were even assassinated for standing up for what they believed in. Many people took part in marches‚ bus boycotts to protest segregation. For example people took part in the bus boycotts because Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus Montgomery‚ Alabama. People got angry and Jo Ann Robinson was one of them‚ “she stayed up all night making hand-written flyers to stay off the bus” (pg 29 Scholastic) until they gave up segregation
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" - Rosa Parks (after being jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a bus). In this quote‚ Rosa Parks‚ a civil rights activist who initiated the Montgomery bus boycott against segregated buses‚ explained how inequality infringed upon those who resided in the lower portion of the racial hierarchy. She noticed that white people dehumanized black people and belittled them by forcing black people to sit in a designated part of the bus. The black community resented this treatment‚ and when Rosa Parks
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eighteen year old African American‚ is arrested for violating the bus segregation laws. December 1 - Rosa Parks‚ an African American‚ is arrested for violating the bus segregation laws and is charged with disorderly conduct. December 2 - The stage for the bus boycott is being set by the black Montgomery activists‚ including Jo Ann Robinson‚ Fred Gray‚ and E. D. Nixon. December 5 - Rosa Parks is convicted and fined by the city court. A one-day boycott of the city buses has 90 percent of regular
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The white supremacy existed for a long time and signs of it still show today. Following World War II‚ a lot of new laws and policies were put in place that did not advantage African Americans the way they did the white people. Jim Crow laws became stronger‚ as well as a rise in the resistance of inferiority and white supremacy of black people grew stronger. African American leaders formed groups opposed to segregation laws‚ black students came together to gain equality‚ and many black people fought
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others remained silent and watched. These people who had the courage to speak their mind and try and change the way they were treated‚ changed the world in one way or another. Some of the most well-known activists include Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Rosa Parks‚ Malcom X‚ and Medgar Evers. They all had their mind set on going against the ways of racism and making a progressive change for the future. One of the most memorable civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s is Martin Luther King Jr. He led
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When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to disobey the tyrannical and oppressive laws set forth by the government‚ doing so peacefully with full ownership of the consequences‚ a decent respect to humankind requires that they should declare the constitutional and moral obligations to do so. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal- yet in modern day American society‚ discrimination and injustice appears to prevail. To secure citizen’s unalienable rights
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