Segregation: Rosa Parks And The Civil Rights Movement

Segregation had a huge effect of the lives of many African Americans. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation. The laws tried to express that African Americans and Whites were “separate but equal”, but were nowhere close to having equal rights. Segregation was forced in schools, hospitals, transportation, restaurants, cemeteries, beaches, and many more. African American children were chosen for a social experiment and were placed in a room full of dolls and had to choose which doll they thought was the prettiest. One hundred percent of the time, the child choose the white doll. Segregation had a huge impact on African Americans self confidence. Clearly, segregation pushed the civil rights movement to use political

Rosa Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white woman after a long strenuous day at work in the 1950s. Her actions helped spark a chain of events for the fight for civil rights. After being sent to prison, Rosa Parks stand for equality helped kick-start the Montgomery bus boycott movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest by African Americans who demanded equal rights. They would refuse to take the public buses or transportation until the government banned the segregation laws. African Americans would take private transportations to get to and from work. This boycott destroyed the bus company financially. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year until racial segregation was banned in public buses. The bus boycott was the first non-violent protest among African Americans that had a huge effect on the civil rights

history. Widely covered in the media, the march increased awareness of the movement and built momentum for the passage of civil rights legislation (Lapsansky-Werner 483)”.The March was held at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. The rally held more than 200,000 people who wanted economic equality and equal rights. Martin Luther King Jr. took the podium and described his dream about this country. He described his dream of having a colorblind society. Martin Luther King Jr’s. speech “I Have a Dream” was one of the most powerful speeches ever delivered, his speech expressed his feelings about this