Here is one more example of how people who do not understand how depraved human beings can be, have tended to overlook situations that need attention. It was very hard for black people to make their way up in America. This is a story of people that were trying hard to get out of slavery. Some people think slavery is a good concept because they believe in evolution. They believe that people are at different stages in the evolutionary process and that some people have not evolved as much as others, therefore believing that people can have less or more value depending on where they are in their evolutionary process. God created people in His image and each person has value and dignity. We need to recognize that principle and live this out in our lives and thinking.
Here is the article from www.history.com
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's historic act of civil disobedience.
"The mother of the civil rights movement," as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
According to a Montgomery city ordinance in 1955, African Americans were required to sit at the back of public buses and were also obligated to give up those seats to white riders if the front of the bus filled up. Parks was in the first row of the black section when the white driver demanded that she give up her seat to a white man. Parks' refusal was spontaneous but was not merely brought on by her tired feet, as is the popular legend. In fact, local civil rights leaders had been planning a challenge to Montgomery's racist bus laws for several months, and Parks had been privy to this discussion.
Learning of Parks' arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by black citizens on Monday, December 5.
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