Civil Rights Movements: Claudette Colvin And Rosa Park

It depends on certain situations whether peaceful resistance to laws can have a positive impact or have a negative impact on a free society. Majority of peaceful assemblies can give the group of activist their freedom of speech and views towards something they believe in. Famous public figures like Claudette Colvin and Rosa Park's civil disobedience had a powerful effect on the world. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move her seat for a white men while sitting on a segregated white bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1st, 1955. Similarly, Claudette Colvin found herself in the same predicament and she was declared the first woman to have that sort of refusal or peaceful resistance towards bus regulations back then. Even though they both knew their views were going to get them into serious consequences with the Jim Crow Laws, they spoke their views and truths about the world during that time. In Rosa Park's situation, fortunately her civil disobedience was a "peaceful resistance towards the law." Nothing seriously got out of control, too violent, or too extreme and to foreshadow when it did; the people of the African American community just stood back up and refused to let the world shut
This caused a revolution which we can now proudly say has turned into an evolution. No more segregation was precipitated throughout the nation. Every race is treated equal due to the revolutionary modification of the Fourteenth Amendment. The president, at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the newly renovated Fourteenth Amendment Article One Section Eight. Which stated that no state can make or enforce a law that limits a citizens constitutional rights. No state can deprive a citizen of life, liberty or property without due process of law. All citizens of the United States no matter what race was welcomed to be equal as everyone