How Did Rosa Parks Impact The Civil Rights Movement

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Imagine being an African American in the 1950’s in the United States and not being able to attend the same schools as whites, or drink from the same water fountain as whites, or not being able to eat in the same restaurant as white people, or enjoy a nice summer beautiful day at the park with your children because there is a sign saying: “NO BLACKS ALLOWED”, or even having to give up your bus seat to a white person. On December of 1955, a civil rights movement began which was known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It all began with the Jim Crow laws which where laws that separated blacks and whites in some parts of the United States. Racism was a huge part of this whole thing. But, two main people were not going to put up with this segregation and unfairness. They were Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Louise Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was the daughter of a carpenter named James McCauley and a teacher named Leona McCauley. As a child, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks grew up on a farm in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a young girl she enrolled in an industrial school for only girls. For high school, she …show more content…

At first, there wasn’t a problem with it, but then a white man boarded the bus and there was no other seat in the section where whites were supposed to be seated. Since Rosa Parks was on the side of the whites she was expected to give up her seat to the white man. Rosa Parks, exhausted from her long stressful day at work, of course politely refused to give up her seat to the white man. Since having to give up your seat to a white person when needed was a law and Rosa Parks refused to obey the law so the bus driver had to obey his job and call the police. The police later arrived and had to arrest, charge, and fine and put Parks in a cell. She was later bailed by her three friends; Clifford Durr, his wife, Virginia and E.D.

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