Argumentative Essay On Rosa Parks

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“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” -Martin Luther King Jr. The people will pursue their dreams to do what's right and never give up. In the harsh times of the busses, Rosa Parks has never given up her dream. I have choose this topic because it is educational,it has a lot of facts, and it is something that has changed the world. The education has purpose to it because it helped shape our international race today. The facts helps by showing us how people interacted back then. It changed the world by not only mixing races but it helped people mix with eachother. This …show more content…

She has been on the front of the bus and then she has refused to leave the seat to the white man. Then when she has been refusing to give up her seat, she has got arrested and fined $10. Then the african-american community has got mad after she has gotten arrested for something small. The results of this was bad but it was to help society out. Then, they started a meeting about the jim crow laws.This has been a meeting with Mayor W.A Gayle in March 1954, and it had policy that would require buses to stop at every corner in black residential areas, like in white communties, then noone standing over empty seats. Then starting on December 5 90 percent of the Montgomery's black citizens stayed off the buses, then discussed about extending about the boycott. The MIA asked about the African Americans bus drivers to be hired for routes primarily made up of the African American Riders, the bus companies and Montgomery officals refused those demands and many white citizens retaliated aganist the African American Community. King's home was bomed and other boycotters were threatened and to be fired from their jobs, for some ocasions the police arrestest a bunch of protesters and took them to jail, one time they charged 80 leaders of the boycott by violating the 1921 law that conflicted with lawful

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