African Americans were considered to be unworthy to be associated with whites, they struggled to fight laws of segregation for years and years to finally be thought of as equals. They fought to earn their civil rights which is were the movement got its name from. There are many names that stand out when you think of the Civil Rights Movement, for example, Martin Luther King Jr. who lead a march to Washington and gave the famous “I have a Dream” speech, and there is also Rosa Parks who refused to sit in the back of the bus and render her seat to a white person. They are all interconnected in one way or another, with each of their actions and teachings influencing each other, and finally after a great deal of years they reached equality and desegregation.

For one woman her act of defiance against the oppression of segregations was in the form of refusing her spot on the bus and not following the rules of segregation in the bus system by sitting in the back. The day was the......

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Title: Civil Rights
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