Rosa Parks. Good morning/afternoon students my name is Rosa Parks and I am here to speak to you about the importance of becoming involved in the civil rights movement

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You walk into a cafe with a white friend. Everyone looks at you in disgust and hatred. White men are walking towards you and they don’t look very happy. Whites were angered because you were sitting in the white table instead of the black .That could’ve cost your life. Good morning/afternoon students my name is Rosa Parks and I am here to speak to you about the importance of becoming involved in the civil rights movement and why you should stand up for what you believe in. African Americans fought for equality, against segregation and racism for long periods of time. We have had enough.

I and many other African Americans like you have suffered from this all our lives. We have to live in different areas from the whites, go to segregated schools, facilities and buses which are inferior to the whites. The Klu Klux Klan has murdered many of our loved ones and family. We will take a stand together. We have to let the whites know that we will not let them make us feel inferior and segregated. We will no longer tolerate being treated as some second class citizen. Sometimes we have to break the law to stop the segregation in America. The civil rights movement is a time of segregation and racism in America.  We are separated from the whites; treated unfairly and looked at as inferior.  We have separate schools, transport and public facilities which are poorly funded and rarely equal to those for whites. Many laws such as the Jim Crow and Plessy vs. Ferguson laws were written to keep us hardly above the status of slaves. Black citizens like you and me have suffered enough from extreme discrimination and racial harassment. We need to do something and stop segregation in the U.S. because everyone needs to be treated fairly and equally.

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The Brown decisions of the United States Supreme Court (1954) proclaim that segregated public schools for white and black students are unlawful. This discourages black students like you from finishing college or high school which led them into low level, segregated careers and restricted their contact with whites. In (1939) Dr. Kenneth Clark an African American educator and professor tested that segregated schools in America has affected African American children’s views on themselves and stereotypes by using dolls. Two dolls had pink skin and two had brown. White and African American students both chose the brown doll as being inferior ...

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