How Did Segregation Affect The Civil Rights Movement
Not all historical figures want to be an icon, such as Rosa Parks. Unlike a few other Civil Rights Movement members, Parks didn't like the spotlight, but, that didn’t stop her from making a stand.
School segregation was a major problem that African Americans had to face growing up. Segregation is the act of separating races, genders, or ethnic groups by designating various public spaces-such as schools or buses-for the use of one race, ethnicity, or gender group alone(Education Staff). When segregation was around, the whites were favored, so the whites got the good stuff and the blacks got all the bad, beaten up, and old stuff, including schools.”...when she started going to school she was forced to walk all the way to her one-room elementary school while all the white children were bussed. Schools were in really bad shape back then. They were small, worn down, …show more content…
Radio Diaries states, “Montgomery was segregated, which meant that black people couldn’t use the dressing rooms at department stores or ride in the front of the bus.” Unfortunately, many other places were like this too. “We had our own grocery stores, black doctors, lawyers, dentists, hotel, movie theaters, shoe repairmen, and our own segregated YMCA.” In most cases, some of these weren't always as nice or as good as the ones that were meant for whites.
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, was returning home from her job on December 1, 1955. She payed and sat in the front row of the colored section. At the next stop a few more white people boarded, but there was no place for them to sit. The bus driver told a couple of colored people, including Rosa, to move. She refused. The bus driver, James Blake, then threatened to call the police if she didn't give up her seat, to which she replied “You may do that.” She was then arrested and taken to jail(Education
School segregation was a major problem that African Americans had to face growing up. Segregation is the act of separating races, genders, or ethnic groups by designating various public spaces-such as schools or buses-for the use of one race, ethnicity, or gender group alone(Education Staff). When segregation was around, the whites were favored, so the whites got the good stuff and the blacks got all the bad, beaten up, and old stuff, including schools.”...when she started going to school she was forced to walk all the way to her one-room elementary school while all the white children were bussed. Schools were in really bad shape back then. They were small, worn down, …show more content…
Radio Diaries states, “Montgomery was segregated, which meant that black people couldn’t use the dressing rooms at department stores or ride in the front of the bus.” Unfortunately, many other places were like this too. “We had our own grocery stores, black doctors, lawyers, dentists, hotel, movie theaters, shoe repairmen, and our own segregated YMCA.” In most cases, some of these weren't always as nice or as good as the ones that were meant for whites.
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, was returning home from her job on December 1, 1955. She payed and sat in the front row of the colored section. At the next stop a few more white people boarded, but there was no place for them to sit. The bus driver told a couple of colored people, including Rosa, to move. She refused. The bus driver, James Blake, then threatened to call the police if she didn't give up her seat, to which she replied “You may do that.” She was then arrested and taken to jail(Education