Rosa Parks and Equity issues
...ront of a bus without any worry she would be arrested because the Supreme Court passed a ruling banning segregation of the city’s public transit vehicles. Rosa is quoted as saying, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," and about how she had this determined attitude to fight segregation. When she was arrested on the bus that day she recalls, "The more we gave in and complied, the worse they (segregationists) treated us." Being black during the civil rights movement must have been hard enough, but to black and female must have been almost impossible. Women in and of themselves have enough of a battle trying to stay equal with their male counterparts, and yet not only did black women of the Civil Rights Movement survive, but they also overcame. Their stick-to-it-ness helped to make the world a better place for their children and grandchildren, as well as themselves. Rosa Parks is a famous and notable figure who took a stand during a period when to do so would mean certain punishment or worse. In a way, the actions of Rosa Parks should be looked upon as a great turning point in the Civil Rights Movement, along with people like Martin Luther King Jr., James Meredith, or the Greensboro Four. In relation to the How Real is Race reading, the Civil Rights Movement represented how society teaches, promotes, and struggles to maintain racial structure even though it may not be scientifically founded. The white majority felt threatened in that its authority and purity would be compromised. The KKK spread the radical idealism that keeping the races separate was the religiously right thing to do and many of society, especially southern society, bought into those claims, persecuting blacks and segregating the population to an insane degree. ‘”Races” are ephemeral- here today, gone tomorrow” and yet associations like the Ku Klux Klan tried very hard to force unrealistic ideas of racial boundaries onto society. The reading stated that “Racial classifications are also unscientific because they are unreliable and unstable over time”. It can be said though that humans in general tend to live in the moment and often forget the past or how it might relate or benefit them in the future. People that belong to groups that encourage racially pure societies are unaware or ignorant to how races fluctuate and change with ...