Social Injustice In Rosa Parks

these young people from entering into the school. Social injustice I do believe was present during
this time, until Dwight D. Eisenhower came in to defuse the situation. The president told the
governor not to interfere with the ruling of allowing blacks and whites to attend the same school.
So the National Guard was removed from the school and the Little Rock Police Department
escorted the teenagers into the school where they continued their education.
Another example of social injustice in Rosa Parks, a young lady being arrested because she
would not give up her seat to a white person, is a prime example of social injustice. Rosa had
every right to be on that bus as anybody else. But, once again her skin color put her in a different

category as the whites, or so they believed. Rosa Parks ended up being arrested for her actions
because it was said that she had not complied with the orders she was given by the bus driver.
The problem with this, is there were seats for whites and whites only and the other seats were
open to whomever. Rosa was not setting in a seat for whites but a white person needed a seat
and she would not give it to him, so the social injustice came into play from the moment the bus
driver told her to give her seat up for a white person.
When you look at the social injustices during the Civil Rights Movements and the social
injustices today, we see there is still a long way to go to achieve real social justice between
all races in America. Looking at the African-American community and how they receive more
time in prison for the same crime that a white man has committed is social injustice. Some stats
that I have come across show that African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total
2.3 million incarcerated population. Also, African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times
the rate of whites and 5 times as many whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African
Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites (Criminal Justice
Fact Sheet). So where is the social justice, it does not exist. Something needs to be done about