Rosa Parks, Woman of Soltitude

Rosa Parks was an outstanding woman who did not give in to the pressures of society and stood up, or in this case stayed seated, for what she believed in. December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks a seamstress and an NAACP officer sat in the front row of a public bus. The bus began to fill up and even though the law was that African Americans had to move to the back when white people needed room, she remain seated. After warning Rosa Parks that she was violating segregation laws, the bus driver called the police to notify them of Ms. Parks actions. She was later convicted and brought to jail. This was the turning point of segregation because it began a chain reaction for African Americans around the United States to stand up for themselves and boycott segregation. Rosa Pars and her case led to the Brown v Board supreme court case which was one of the most important cases of all time for the abolishment of segregation where the Court overturned parts of Plessy v Fergessen and began to accept that seperate-but-equal was unconstitutional. Although it took many years after that to completely overcome discrimination of the African American race, Rosa Parks and her courage led to the advancement of black people. It took many decades to abolish segregation in the US but trough determination, moral integrity and unity for these laws to be overturned and for society to begin accepting people not for their race but for who they are.