Move To The Back: Rosa Parks And The Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks wanted racial equality. She wanted to stand up for everyone who was too scared to do so for themselves—The most significant achievement of Rosa Parks as an advocate for equal rights. Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the 45 Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 sparked the Civil Rights Movement and brought attention to the systemic racism and segregation that African Americans faced in the United States, making her a symbol of resistance and a catalyst for change. The 1950s saw an increase in the middle class, new technology, and economic growth. African Americans were facing inequality throughout

Rosa's revolutionary act, which served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, shows how everyone can make a change by protesting and taking civil action. In the article Move to the Back, Rosa Parks said “I refused to go along with the unfair rules”. Rosa stood up for herself by refusing to listen to the bus driver because she believed that wasn't right for her to get treated in that way. When the bus driver asked her to stand up she refused even though it meant she would be getting arrested. If she just would have listened to the bus driver things wouldn't change it would keep happening over and over again. For one thing, Rosa married Raymond Parks in 1932 when she was just 19, a self-educated barber and lifelong member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who was ten years older than her. In the article Move to the Back, it says “Rosa and Raymond decided together it was a battle worth fighting”. When Rosa only had one phone call she can make while she was in jail she called her husband and told him to come to get her, because she knew that her husband supported her decisions no matter what. Since Rosa had a husband who believed in her and her decisions a 100% it encouraged her to fight for what was right. For example, the article Move to the Back, says, “Mrs.Parks and her husband both lost their jobs and received death threats”. Even tho she was in jail, lost her job, and was receiving death threats. Nothing could stop her from fighting for what was right. Rosa Parks was an introverted individual even through her introversion she advocated when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, standing up for the African American community, without caring what the consequences of her actions were gonna