Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

was not the “quiet seamstress” that the media portrayed her to be.
According to Mrs. Parks, “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired that I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, tired of giving in.” [2] Parks was tired of blacks being inferior to the white population. She took a risk by refusing to give up her seat; she did not know what America’s reaction would be.
She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including the prominent civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.. [3] At the time of the bus boycott, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, otherwise known as the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Center, where she learned about employees' rights and racial ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

of Arkansas, and the country. [8]
In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected state conference president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP. While she served as president, Daisy Bates took part in litigation to pressure the Little Rock School Board to move on with an integration program. Following the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling calling for desegregation in all schools, Virgil Blossom, who was superintendent of schools in Little Rock, submitted a plan for gradual integration of the school. [9] The consequent "Blossom Plan" called for integration in the high school. Daisy Bates took on the challenge of providing protective custody for the students that ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: