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Rosa Parks's Expectations Of The Civil Rights Movement

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I have many expectations of civil rights as an American citizen. After World War II ended, African Americans and other civil rights supporters are challenging segregation in the United States. However, their efforts are being vigorously opposed by Southern segregationists, but the federal government is beginning to take a firmer stand for civil rights. Based off of recent events, Rosa Parks was treated unfairly on a Montgomery bus. When Parks did not give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver called the Montgomery police. Rosa Parks’s actions are sparking a new era in the civil rights movement. African Americans in Montgomery have quickly organized a boycott of the bus system. African Americans decided it was time to demand equal rights after decades of segregation and inequality. I believe the struggle will definitely not be easy. The Supreme Court declared segregation to be constitutional in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. This ruling had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. This meant the laws that segregated African Americans were permitted as long as equal facilities were provided for them. After this decision, laws segregating African Americans and whites spread quickly. “Jim Crow” laws, segregated …show more content…

Since 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has supported cases intended to overturn segregation. The NAACP has achieved several victories over the past couple of years. For instance, in 1935, the Supreme Court ruled in Norris v. Alabama that Alabama’s exclusion of African Americans from juries violated their right to equal protection under the law. Additionally, in 1946, the Court ruled in Morgan v. Virginia that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. Lastly, in 1950 it ruled in Sweatt v. Painter that state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants, even if parallele black law schools

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