La Politique

Rosa Parks : My Story

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Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins

How It All Started

One evening in early December 1955 I was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in

Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting

in the white section. More white people got on,

and they filled up all the seats in the white se

ction. When that happened, we black people were

supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn’t move. The white driver said,

“Let me have those front seats.” I didn’t get up.

I was tired of giving in to white people.

“I’m going to have you arre

sted,” the driver said.

“You may do that,” I answered.

Two white policemen came. I asked of

them, “Why do you all push us around,”

He answered, “I don’t know, but the law

is the law and you’re under arrest.”

For half of my life there were laws and customs in

the South that kept Afri

can Americans segregated

from Caucasians and allowed white people to treat black people without any respect. I never thought

this was fair, and from the time I was a child, I tri

ed to protest against disres

pectful treatment. But it

was very hard to do anything about segregation and

racism when white people had the power and the

law behind them. Somehow we had to change the laws. And we had to get enough white people on

our side..

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