Rosa Parks Research Paper

We cannot expect change if we do not start change. Throughout history many moments have shook and changed the world we live in today. If these moments never happened what would our world be like now? Rosa Louise Parks was a woman who sparked a movement that many was too scared to do themselves. All Rosa did was simply not get up from a seat and the world went to talking.

Rosa Parks learned from a young age although her skin was dark she was still equal to her white counterparts. Rosa never believed that the skin she was in could stop her from succeeding in life. December 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks got aboard a Montgomery City Bus to head home from exhausted day of work. Little did this tired seamstress know that she would change

the world. Life back in the 50's was not as easy as now, then when you boarded a bus your searing was arranged by the pigmentation of your skin. There a "White Section" and a "Colored Section." People who were Caucasian sat toward the front with better seating while if you were African American you sat in the pitiful or back of the bus. You did not enter unless you entered through the back of the bus. Rosa Parks got on the bus as usually and sat in the what was called the "Center Section". Coloreds were allowed to sit in the Center Section behind a imaginary line that continued all the back. This line went farther and farther back as more Caucasian people boarded the bus. Rosa and a couple of other people were in the center section when the driver announced that they had to move to let the man who just boarded the bus would have a seat

The driver of the bus James S. Blake was not a stranger to Rosa. Rosa and James had previously had a not so pleasant encounter. James kicked Rosa off of the bus and made her walk five miles to her home in the rain. The people who were sitting around Rosa moved. Rosa didn't move at all. She felt that she did not have to move because of her skin color although it was the law. Rosa was capable of moving but she didn't because of the principle. The driver demanded that she moved but Rosa stood strong and did not move. The driver told her if she did not move that he would have to inform law enforcement. There Rosa still sat untouched. Although the driver made several attempts to remove Rosa from the seat she did not budge. The driver was a relentless man. He had Rosa Parks arrested in the middle of a crowded bus.

Rosa's bus refusal changed the world in a positive way. Her refusing to give into the white man's demands she changed the world. Although she wasn't the first to encounter these struggles she sparked a big epidemic. Rosa started bus boycotts to change the rules to equal rights on buses and public facilities. Rosa helped fight for black freedoms and equal treatment of people regardless of race. Parks didn't let anything stop her from achieving this goal she had set.

In conclusion the world have been shaken and awoken but present and past events. People say they want change but to have change one has to become change. Although it may take time change is frequently occur whether you or I believe it. People like Rosa Parks and the things she did paved the way for people now to enjoy things we have now. If we were not to have had the struggles of the past we may be still segregated by the pigment of our skin. Think about it would you like to be sitting in the back of the bus just because of the skin you are in.