Rosa Parks vs Apartheid

THE HISTORY OF ROSA PARKS

Watching the video about Martin Luther King delivering the mythic speech of “I have a dream” against american apartheid I came to mind the pioneer of the struggle against racial segregation, Rosa Parks.

In the fifties, in USA black people couldn’t share the same public places with white people: schools, restaurants...inclusive it was forbidden the entry in the restrooms. A huge discrimination in order to make feel inferior and marginalised to people of color.

THE BUS INCIDENT

Segregation reached to such an extent that on the buses black people and white people were separated by a line. White people in the front part and black people on the back. Black people had to get on the bus, pay,  get down and back up through the back door. But But one day, the tailor Rosa Parks ,very tired, took the bus to return home and she sat in the middle seats but where a white man got on the bus the driver told Rosa Parks and three black men that they all had to get up from their seats, thing that established the law, but she refused. the police arrived to arrest her for disturbing public law. She was damned to pay a penalty and she spent the night in the hole. All for not accept that four people stood so that one white person could sit.

THE LEGACY OF ROSA PARKS

How was something unusual, the case transcended publicly, arriving to a young baptist pastor, until then unknown,  Martin Luther King, who organized a wave of protest against apartheid. One year after  what happened on that bus in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, any type of racial discrimination in public places was abolished.