Real action is helping people be equal. So, starting a food bank and making sure people are fed or working for equal wages or getting rid of the box the denies past incarcerations the ability to get a job are all ways that the playing field is equalized and that people have a voice. There is nothing that is violent about a food bank, yet it is one of the most basic needs being met. In Los Angeles last year, there have been lots of protests. In the protest, they normally stand against the police shootings, when a police officer has killed an innocent person. During the protest, someone would shoot into the crowd and police would run to protect the crowd who were the civil disobedient. Ironically, more often than not, a police officer would die in the line of duty. …show more content…
I believe Claudette Colvin is a exceptional example of a peaceful protest that impacted society positively. Claudette Colvin was a civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama, during the 1950's. She refused to give up her seat on a bus months before Rosa Parks' more famous protest. Later than year, Rosa Parks protested. …show more content…
Claudette was 15 year old when she did this. "When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because 'she was an adult. They didn't think teenagers would be reliable,'" (NPR). This is a great role model for young children. Colvin writes in her novel, "It just killed me to leave the bus. I hated to give that white woman my seat when so many black people were
People partaking in sit ins were told to take abuse, and were arrested. This movement was used to show that violence was coming from the white community and helped achieve the goals of the civil rights movement towards racial equality. A more recent example of civil disobedience is the woman's march occurring January 21st 2017.
(Studysync) Claudette was not known because people thought teenagers aren't reliable and said that Claudette became pregnant and that caused her to become emotional. (Studysync) This was not true Claudette didn't become pregnant until a while after. So when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat they thought she was a perfect symbol. Claudette was the inspiration for Rosa Parks.
The bus driver demanded her to get up from the seat and she still refused, saying she paid her fare and it was her constitutional right. The NAACP received a large number of letters saying how brave Colvin was to refuse her seat. Secretary of the NAACP Rosa Parks reviewed the letters and incepted by the NAACP to become the spokesperson of the NAACP's bus boycott and Anti-Segregation movement. I honestly had never heard of Claudette Colvin until watching the Drunk History video. The added humor
In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” they had a lot of protests, they had sit-ins where they sat in places where only whites were allowed while people threw stuff at them. The African Americans walked for miles holding signs and even got arrested trying to change the way things were. All of their protests were nonviolent to insure they would get the best result. They also knew being violent would not help their cause, but it would most likely hurt it. The “We are the 99 Percent” movement had protests all over the U.S with people everywhere holding signs.
A couple people died months later because of their injuries. These marchers were not interrupting anybody or bothering anything and the police officers had to take action. They were on the sidewalk of the highway and away from the officers and others. The officers thought they were going to do something bad so they took
Furious citizens began rioting and protesting for weeks in the area. In attempts to calm the violence, officers used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters who, in turn, threw bottles
with fear as the reason for her relative fearlessness in deciding to appeal her conviction during the bus boycott. Four days after the Rosa Parks arrest African Americans boycotted the Montgomery bus. In the year of the boycott, Rosa Parks traveled around the world raising awareness and funds for the movement (boycott). Also she is called the mother of the civil rights movement.
[[[Fueled with the knowledge of the current civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin felt compelled to draw attention to her case.]]] Local community leaders determined it would be better to wait. Rosa Parks was famously arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to move and she became the NAACP’s face of the civil rights movement. A few key reasons exist for why the NAACP chose Rosa Parks over Claudette Colvin. Colvin’s young age of 15 made her seem more immaturely defiant to the public eye.
A current issue, we have today in Los Angeles, is the deportation of undocumented, hardworking people. One way civil disobedience is effective is because protesters do not use violence which means no one dies, no one gets hurt
“It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem, “ stated Coretta Scott King. Coretta Scott King used her position of leadership and power to bring about positive change in history. Coretta stood up for oppressed peoples rights by speaking out and raising awareness. Coretta Scott King was a very important figure to the Civil Rights Movement.
This goes to show how strong Colvin regardless of what anyone said to her. Her parents did not want her to reveal the reason why she was prevent. Colvin was practically vulnerable, Colvin was an outcast, and some people looked at her as a brave young girl, others looked at her as someone dangerous and overall, a negative influence toward the youth, at the time. These are the reasons why she remains a historical, yet forgotten figure. Claudette Colvin is a historical that deserves more attention.
" Parks, who had lost her job and experienced harassment all year became known as 'the mother of the civil rights movement' " (Bio). From her many speeches and appearances she made, many people started to recognize her and supported her on the messages she was trying to get across. "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.... so other people would also be free"(woman history).
Before beginning this research project, could anyone name a female, besides Rosa Parks, involved in the Civil Rights movement? Don’t worry, I couldn’t name anyone either. Rosa Parks made so many amazing contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. However, there are many women just like Rosa in the Civil Rights movement who go nearly unrecognized for the acts they took during this time. One example of a powerful and impactful woman during the Civil Rights movement is Dorothy Height.
The bus driver got angry and kicked Rosa out the bus. Rosa had to walk 5 miles home in the rain. When Rosa encountered the same bus driver, she got told to give up her seat for a white man. But Rosa refused. Rosa had enough of the indignity of segregation, she needed to make a stand.
I am going to tell you about an enchanting story about a woman named Rosa Parks and her mongomery, bus boycott. Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee Alabama U.S.A she died on October 24,2005 [age 92] in Detroit, Michigan U.S. before she got arrested for boycotting a montgomery bus Rosa Parks went to school like a normal child. She was raised up on her daddy's farm and raised as a normal girl but she did have to go to a different school then the white people in 1929 when she was in 11th grade she had to go out of school because her grandmother got sick and she had to help her. So most people think that she was the first African American to refusing to yield her seat on a montgomery bus but she was not the first there were actually