How Did Rosa Parks Impact The Civil Rights Movement

Throughout American history, the American people have been fighting for equal rights. Minorities, women, and gays were receiving extreme discrimination in the workforce and in society. Throughout history, each group were granted some rights they deserved, however, the gay community rights were not seen as the same as civil right because society believed they chose their own sexual orientation. After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, blacks were still heavily discriminated against, as well as other minorities. These individuals were constantly fighting for their rights as other citizens, whites, already had. They wanted to end racial segregation and discrimination against blacks and other minorities. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s,

Rosa Parks was on the first black individuals who attempted to destroy the psychological wages. Buses were segregated and blacks had to sit in the back of the bus, but Rosa Parks sat in the front, and refused to give up her seat to a white man. She was later arrested, but her action sparked a boycott, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where African Americans refused to ride the buses. This boycott lasted over a year, when the United States decided to integrate the bus system.

Rosa Parks action lead to beginning of several movements, and Martin Luther King Jr, was one of the influential black leaders during the boycott. Martin Luther King Jr also led the March on Washington, in August of 1963, where hundreds of thousands, gathered in Washington to draw attention to the struggles that African Americans were facing. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech that day, which he wished that one day everyone will be treated equal and be a homogenous

Women were discriminated against because of their sex. The Women’s Feminist movement took place during the 1960’s and 1970’s, as white and black women fought against workplace inequality, as they were not provided better jobs because they were considered men’s jobs, and they were receiving nearly half the pay as men were. This lead to the Equal Pay Act, where employers must equally pay women as much as men, and they were not allowed to change the job description to get around paying women the same. This also lead to the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited the discrimination of race, sex, color, and religion. They also fought for reproductive rights, marriage rights, as many of them encountered domestic violence and sexual harassment from their husbands, and were being raped by them. Several laws were passed, where the use of contraceptives in marriage were allowed, abortions were legalized, and in some states, it became illegal for men to rape their