The real story of Rosa Parks sixty-five Years Later: What You learned in college is wrong
Unjust laws will remain unjust until they're disobeyed by good people. Had brave individuals throughout history not risked imprisonment or worse to challenge tyrannical, racist, and immoral laws, society today, would be much less free — this rule is very true for black people in America. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history by disobeying an unjust law that required people of color to yield their seats on the bus to the race . When the busman told the complete row of black people to maneuver to the rear of the bus because a white person boarded, everyone complied, aside from Parks. Parks was arrested and convicted for failing to obey the driver’s seat assignments. The events following her arrest, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and therefore the federal ruling of Browder v. Gayle which ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional, would be ...