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As everyone else has stated, this article was really informative on many levels. I guess the first thing that struck me was the fact that even though I had heard many times the story of Rosa Parks, it had always been presented that Rosa was just an unsuspecting black woman in the South who was pushed around just one too many times. I cheered for Rosa standing up to the bigotry. What I didn’t know was Rosa Parks was no ordinary “typical” black woman. Instead, she was a Civil Rights activist who stood her ground when her civil liberties were being threatened. It makes no difference to the circumstances surrounding her arrest and I still cheer her strength, but the facts were never presented completely. I always wondered how they got that famous picture of the white cop fingerprinting Rosa Parks; now I have some idea. Second, when learning of the bus boycott, I was never aware of the camaraderie between the black working women and their white employers. It seems to me that this was due to a combination of things; first the close relationship a number of these women must have had within the household and second the high level of reliability white women had for their help. EFritz | As everyone else has stated, this article was really informative on many levels. I guess the first thing that struck me was the fact that even though I had heard many times the story of Rosa Parks, it had always been presented that Rosa was just an unsuspecting black woman in the South who was pushed around just one too many times. I cheered for Rosa standing up to the bigotry. What I didn’t know was Rosa Parks was no ordinary “typical” black woman. Instead, she was a Civil Rights activist who stood her ground when her civil liberties were being threatened. It makes no difference to the circumstances surrounding her arrest and I still cheer her strength, but the facts were never presented completely. I always wondered how they got that famous picture of the white cop fingerprinting Rosa Parks; now I have some idea. Second, when learning of the bus boycott, I was never aware of the camaraderie between the black working women and their white employers. It seems to me that this was due to a combination of things; first the close relationship a number of these women must have had within the household and second the high level of reliability white women had for their help. EFritz | ||
| − | Wow, lots of comments on this. The first thing that struck me was, when Mr. Nixon was trying to get Mrs. Parks out of jail, he needed to call white friends to help him. The white police officers could just deny him the opportunity to talk to Rosa or to bail her out. The level of prejudice and discrimination in the south through these years is so deep that it kind of never fails to surprise me. Just to begin with changing the laws of segregation and discrimination must have seemed like a small first step in light of such major social ignorance and prejudice. -Erin B. | + | Wow, lots of comments on this. The first thing that struck me was, when Mr. Nixon was trying to get Mrs. Parks out of jail, he needed to call white friends to help him. The white police officers could just deny him the opportunity to talk to Rosa or to bail her out. The level of prejudice and discrimination in the south through these years is so deep that it kind of never fails to surprise me. Just to begin with changing the laws of segregation and discrimination must have seemed like a small first step in light of such major social ignorance and prejudice. -Erin |
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| + | One of the more interesting in this article was the lengths that the whites went to even when blacks were boycotting the busses. For example, it says the policemen would give white people tickets for giving blacks rides to and from work because they would not take the busses. It seems like they were turning on their own race and I am incredibly suprised that they would ticket whites for this. In addition, it is completely illegal, and there is no law about who you can give rides to. These white women would not quit giving rides because they needed these women to work on time and the best way for that was to help them out and give them rides. This seems like one of the few times in history where black and white women bonded together, and white women were indirectly helping the civil rights cause. -afrisk | ||
== Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | == Mirta Vidal Reports on the Rising Consciousness of the Chicana About Her Special Oppression, 1971 == | ||
