Mrs. Parks And The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights movement was a social movement that began around the early 1950s. The Civil Rights movement was started due to the mistreatment and segregation of African American people. Segregation was made constitutional through the supreme court and many states didn’t have a specific law on the topic. The civil rights movement had been pushing for no more segregation from the beginning of the 1900s. The civil rights movement was supported by the African American community and by some white people. The Civil Rights movement’s main goal was to end segregation, and, in the end, they had achieved their main goal but also gained other civil rights along the way. But it really had started to rapidly grow and gain coverage due to an occurrence

The bus’s White’s only section was filled so the bus driver wanted Mrs. Parks to move for the white man. She would have to stand even though she had gotten on the bus before the white passenger. Due to her refusal, she was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, but was bailed out by a Civil Rights leader. Due to the inspiring instance, many young black people would start to sit in places where they only served white people to peacefully protest for integration but were met with brutality. Mrs. Parks is an inspiring woman who wanted change and helped the civil rights movement be able to fight against segregation. This started a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system, which made the company lose a lot of business and money. The boycott of the bus system was started by a pastor named Martin Luther King Jr.; this boycott lasted over a year. Dr. King believed the best way for this movement to gain real traction and attention would be the use of peaceful protests, like sit-ins. But even though Mrs. Parks’ story is very well known there were more things that had come out of the civil rights movements. There were more than a handful of court cases that were very

It’s easier said than done though, to love a stranger like some in your family. You could put this into practice by not “judging a book by its cover” and always giving everyone a fair chance. You should never help someone over someone else because you see their skin tone than their needs first, say you have a chance to serve in a community that is in a prominently Black area, and you want to skip this chance because it is rumored to be the bad part of town. But you would rather donate money or other items to the community than go to the area because it’s not what you are used to. A nicer part of town that has very low crime rates and is prominently white. Of course, this isn’t immediately making you a bad person or racist if you feel safer in a place that you know is safe, but it is not the Christian way to live. God would tell you that you need to take this chance to help people in need or he would have never provided this chance for you to serve. There are many opportunities given to us and some may not seem like a big deal, but it could be a big deal to the people on the other