Other people who believed in no segregation
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama
in 1913. In 1955, after a long, miserable day at work, Rosa
rode her usual bus back home. She sat down in a seat towards the middle where
either whites or blacks could sit. When the bus became crowded, the bus driver
told Rosa to give her seat to a white man. Rosa refused to let the man take her seat from her
though! Rosa was arrested and thrown in jail
and was found guilty of violating a segregation law. Ever since then, and even
before that, Rosa did not want segregation,
and didn’t believe in it! So, she stood up for her rights, and ended up in
jail… The actions of Rosa Parks inspired the belief in the power of individual
to enact change and earned her title; “The mother of the civil rights
movement.”
Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska,
and he was one of eight children. In
1929, the white racists burned down the Little’s home, and two years later,
Malcolm’s father died. In June, 1964, Malcolm formed an organization of
afro-American unity to unify blacks with differing philosophies and to work
with forward thinking white organizations. Malcolm fought for what he thought
was right. Some people listened, and some didn’t. Malcolm got killed in
February, 1965 by a Black Muslim.
Mohandas Ghandi a small Indian man and his philosophy of nonviolence and his
passion for independence began a drive for freedom that doomed colonialism. He
was a great man who helped fight for freedom in the Civil Rights Movement, and
believed in freedom and no hatred.