Rosa Park Essay

1. Briefly explain the real story of Rosa Park and why this story (the real one) is so important? Why were you, and so many others told the other story?
Many of us were taught a story in high school that impacted all of ours life. Imagine back at Segregation time, where your skin color established where you sat in bus, from which water fountains you had to drink water from or ever which bathroom you could and couldn’t use. On December 1st, 1995 a white man enters a bus, where his section “the white section” all the seats were occupied, therefore he left standing. The bus driver goes to the back of the bus, the “colored section” and tells an entire row to stand up, so that this white passenger can have a sit. Mrs. Rosa Park was one of the

Many of us can even argue that Mrs. Parks was sitting at the front of the bus, which is why she got arrested. But why? Because that’s what we are all taught in middle school and high school. Almost none of us were told the truth of Rosa Park story, because a white person wrote this story. Why do I say this? Who dominated whom, back then? Whites over Black. Who were the one that followed a professional career, such as professional writers? Whites. So, Why would you tell the truth if you were the white author of this story, when you know it’s going to look “bad” not just for you, but the all the white population, that the police officer, the white passenger, and the bus driver were wrong for arresting an innocent person? Rosa Park sat at the back of the bus, and she didn’t refused to give up her seat because she was tired and feet hurt or because she was seated in the white section. (Klein 2013) This historical event that needs to be taught correctly worldwide, and stop accusing a innocent person of something she did not committed and making colored people seem as violators of what was the