Rosa Park’s action started the biggest anti-segregation movement in US.

A Michigan museum recently paid $492,000 for an old, dilapidated bus from Montgomery, Alabama.
The old bus was reported to be the same one that Rosa Parks sat on and which action sparked the civil rights movement in the America. She refused to give her seating place to a white man. In the 60’s in the United
States, white people had the priority in buses for seats over black people. Everything was segregated at this time: schools, churches, restaurants, bars … It was the period of the an important differentiation between black people and white people. In refusing to surrender her seat to a white man, Rosa inspired a courageous freedom movement that lives on, even today.

It took incredible courage for an African American woman to make such a bold stance in 1955
Alabama. This act took place in an era when African Americans could be arrested and face severe retribution for committing the most trivial acts of defiance. White people were racist with black people as they did what they could to make them go to jail or show them the white men’s superiority. Colored people could not have important jobs in the country like being a judge or a governor. Since the Civil War, many people thought black people still as slaves and inferior people only because of their skin color. This state of mind was transmitted from generation to another and it still remains, but latter, in today’s United States. Because of this, general state of mind, those of white people who did not liked the idea of segregation and wanted an equality between each race, were not that voluntary to show it because they would be considerate as traitors by those who supported the main idea. Many of high positioned white people were racist and did not hesitated to give hard sanctions for black people and as policemen were in majority white and the judgment was given by a white judge, giving a decision