Rosa Park's Role In Civil Disobedience

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” (Rosa Quotes). Rosa Park’s involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences, she chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest seats on the bus for colored people, and she did achieve success using this controversial method of standing up for what she strongly believes to be right. Civil disobedience is protesting in a way that purposely breaks a law. Typically the laws that are being broken are the ones that they are protesting (Peter Suber). The purpose of civil disobedience is to attempt or put a stop to an unfair law and get it changed (Peter Suber). To understand Rosa Park’s role in civil disobedience, one must first have knowledge of her personal

Parks died when she was 92 (Remembering Rosa). Parks husband encountered throat cancer, he passed away August 1977. Rosa Parks brother, Sylvester died of cancer November of 1977, not long after her husband (Rosa Biography). In New York City and Washington D.C. on November 1, 2005 left bus seats open for the remembrance of Rosa Parks act of civil disobedience (Klein, Christopher). After Rosa Parks died, it was decided by Congress to let her body lay in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in honor. Since 1852, Rosa Parks was the 31st person, the first snowman, and the second black person to have the honor to stay there (Rosa: Mother). Rosa Parks now has a statue in the halls of Congress. Rosa Parks statue is near nine feet tall and wearing the same clothes as she did on the bus (Rosa permanent). Where Rosa Parks statue stands in the U.S. Capitol, President Obama, Congressman James Clyburn, and House speaker John Boehner honored her (Civil Immortalized). Rosa Park’s personal influences from her family was due to civil disobedience. Her involvement in civil disobedience was to get buses desegregated. Rosa Parks act of standing up for what she believed had a big part of changing the United States for the better. Staying seated might not mean a lot to you, but in civil disobedience it meant everything to Rosa and the black community. She stayed seated for a greater cause she could have easily moved and said nothing but then nothing would have been accomplished. With her staying seated she impacted so many lives world wide. A bus seat isn't just a bus seat but a symbol of civil