On December 1959, Rosa Parks got on a bus after work. She sat down as she normally would on the row behind the white people. In those days, when a white person got on a bus and there was not enough space, a black person had to get up and stand. On that day Rosa Parks made up her mind to not move as she thought “it was not fair that white people had better privileges than back people so I didn’t budge I stayed put”. I asked a few people what they witnessed on that day. First I spoke with a black lady I said “how did you feel when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to the white women?” She said “I was a bit shocked that Rosa Parks didn’t give up her seat because she disobeyed the rules.” Also, I spoke with a white lady that stayed on the bus when everyone else was not using buses so I asked “Why did you continue to use the bus instead of boycotting them?” She said “It was my seat and my right to sit in my seat!” Also I asked a white women about the boycott I said, “Why did you not use the buses and chose to boycott alongside the black people?” she said that she boycott because it was unfair that black people were treated differently to white people. For example, white people get to sit on the bus no matter what but a black person has to stand up on the bus. I also asked Rosa Parks how she felt when the law was changed and she said “I was a bit surprised that I changed the law but I made up my mind to stay in my seat and nobody could budge me from my seat. I was really happy that some of the unfairness had ended but there was still segregation so the fight did not end there.”

from newsweekly