How Did Rosa Parks Have A Dbq On Civil Rights

The Civil rights movement began for African-Americas to end racial segregation and discrimination. A movement that would take years, lives and pride of many to make each African-American equal to white men. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King go down in history for becoming the lead voice of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrest for non-compliance with bus segregation laws, although it was a seat she has paid for. It was known for black women to sit in the back of the bus and to give up their seat for white women/men. For refusing her seat she was arrest, and for this it was unfair. “I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for…” (Document 2 Rosa Parks). Everyone paid for seats on the

She stood by her decision because she believed it was time to say enough. Although she did not plan to get arrested she had had enough of being treated poorly because of her skin color. It was time to set out a voice for the African-American community, they were people to and should be treated as such. It did not take much longer for many to follow her. In 1963 Martin Luther king Jr. guided a peaceful mass demonstration that white police men quickly intervened. Where he was also arrested, and sent to the Birmingham City jail. Martin in jail wrote was is now known as the Birmingham letter that defends the strategy of the nonviolence resistance to racism. The letter was written to respond to several criticism made by the “A Call for Unity” clergymen. These men believed that the battle of racial segregation should be fought in the courts and not be protested in the streets. Arresting Martin and his fellow brother was wrong, no violence was going on in this protest. It was simply their skin color was black and they were a “Negro” who setting out awareness to racial segregation. Once out of jail Martin processed to guide his fellow African-Americas to peaceful protesting making him write his speech of “I have a