African Americans Express Emotions

“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in, “ once said by Rosa Park. Rosa Park inspired many people with how she handled her life. She gave other African Americans the courage to stand up and tell how they felt. Conflict allows people to create unity, express emotions, and speaking opinions. The Civil Rights Movements conflict caused more good than bad, and allowed society to create unity, express emotions, and speak their opinions. The Civil Rights Movements conflict allowed society to express their emotions, but there was some bad that came out of that. African Americans should have freely been able to express their emotions. According to Sara

Most people thought expressing emotions was a good and helped raise confidence in others. “The court’s decision rejected the separate but equal ruling of 1896 and inspired African Americans to strike out against other discrimination, particularly in public places” (Alton 136m). Most Northerners felt that expressing your emotions was a good because it allowed society to see their viewpoints, and some people may change their feelings towards that subject. While protesting, a North Carolina women carried a homemade sign expressing her emotions with it (Sara 39). Expressing emotions, most people thought of it as a way to release all the feelings inside of themselves and to try to make the conflict go away. Writer Timothy J. Lombardo supports this by writing how “One protester waved the Pan-African flag high above the heads of the protesters as African American marchers reportedly yelled “We’re fired up, ain’t gonna take no more,” over the police barricade” (0). Along with expressing emotions conflict also allowed society to create

Most people thought of speaking opinions as a good thing because if enough people spoke their opinions something good would eventually come out of it. People know this by when multiple African Americans from Montgomery protested Rosa Park’s arrest by refusing to ride the buses. The protest lasted 382 days, and ending when the city abolished the bus law (Alton 136m). Many Northerners saw speaking opinions as a good thing because when one person spoke their opinion it showed others that they needed to speak theirs. “Dubois along with other black and white leaders, established the National Association for the Advancement of colored people in 1910. By 1940 NAACP membership reached 50,000” (Sara 13). Speaking opinions was good because it showed the people who didn’t care how much it meant to other people who were involved in it and made other people change their mind. “Former slave Frederick Douglass spoke boldly and eloquently in favor of equal rights for blacks” (Sara 13). Many people had many different observations on this