Rosa Parks Research Paper
How Important were the actions of Rosa Parks to the civil rights movement? Explain your answer. Rosa Parks was a black American who it has been said, started the black civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was fro Montgomery, and in Montgomery they had a local low that black people were only allowed to sit in a few seats on the public buses and if a white person wanted their set, they would have to give it up. On one bus journey Parks was asked to move for a white person, she refused and the police were call and she was arrested and convicted of breaking the bus laws. The black people of Montgomery decided that the best way to show their anger at what had happened and how they were being treated would be by boycott, not use, the local bus
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Both these groups believed in protesting peacefully with methods such as sit-ins and boycotts. There were also some violent groups that were formed such as the Black Panthers. They believed in arming themselves and forcing white people into giving them equal rights. However it was not just down to Rosa Parks, there were other people who were also fighting for equal rights such as Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King wrote speeches and fair right and was known for promoting peaceful methods of protest. His favoured method of protesting was sit-ins, boycotts, speeches and marches. One example of this would be his I Have a dream speech', which he delivered on the 28th of August 1963, outside Washington DC. Between 10,000 and 15,000 people a mixture of both black and white people turned out to hear him give it, taking the issue of segregation from a southern sideshow into a national movement. He also formed the SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which ran conferences and trained civil rights activists in techniques of non-violent protest and how to handle the law and media. He helped to show people that black people also deserved the same rights as white people. Another person who was fighting for equal rights was Malcolm X. However he believe in more violent methods of protest and would do almost anything to show people how he felt, even break the law. He wanted to form a separate state for black people, which contained no white
Both these groups believed in protesting peacefully with methods such as sit-ins and boycotts. There were also some violent groups that were formed such as the Black Panthers. They believed in arming themselves and forcing white people into giving them equal rights. However it was not just down to Rosa Parks, there were other people who were also fighting for equal rights such as Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King wrote speeches and fair right and was known for promoting peaceful methods of protest. His favoured method of protesting was sit-ins, boycotts, speeches and marches. One example of this would be his I Have a dream speech', which he delivered on the 28th of August 1963, outside Washington DC. Between 10,000 and 15,000 people a mixture of both black and white people turned out to hear him give it, taking the issue of segregation from a southern sideshow into a national movement. He also formed the SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which ran conferences and trained civil rights activists in techniques of non-violent protest and how to handle the law and media. He helped to show people that black people also deserved the same rights as white people. Another person who was fighting for equal rights was Malcolm X. However he believe in more violent methods of protest and would do almost anything to show people how he felt, even break the law. He wanted to form a separate state for black people, which contained no white