Civil Rights Activists: Rosa Parks

Civil Rights Activist Impacts In America, during the early 1950s, times were dramatically changing for the better due to the brave actions taken by Rosa Parks and the many African Americans who took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks is known as an activist during the African-American Civil Rights Movement who promoted the idea of racial equality and an end to segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. led his first nonviolent protest known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott where he advocated equal rights for all races. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. are both remembered not for doing what is prohibited, but for failing to do what was required of them in a segregated society such as refusing to give up a seat on a public bus and abstaining from taking action when it was felt necessary. Parks is known as one of the first activist to initiate the Civil Right Movement in America. Her
He was searching for a courageous colored woman with integrity and honest intentions to be a plaintiff in a legal challenge of the segregation laws. The Montgomery Improvement Association met on the day of Parks court date, where she was found guilty of violating the law, and decided to boycott the city’s bus program on December 5, 1955. This was known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was led by Martin Luther King Jr., the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. On June 5, 1956, the Montgomery federal court ruled that racial segregation violated the fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling on December 21, 1956. The boycott ended, and the buses were integrated. Parks small act of disobedience of what was required in society greatly impacted the nation because it, “matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever” (Thoreau