“Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone” - Unknown. . Rosa Parks strongly believed in the equal treatment of everyone, regardless of race. She is the perfect example of this quote: she stood up (sat down) on that bus seat by herself with no one standing up for her until it happened. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the characters Scout, Atticus, and Tom Robinson all stood up for something they believed in despite being alone. Rosa Parks, born and raised in Alabama, sat alone in a town in Montgomery. bus. The bus driver noticed a white man standing and asked Parks to move so he could sit down and her seat would force her to stand up. When she refused to move, he called the police and she was arrested. She didn't know what would happen, if her friends looked at her differently, how long she would stay in prison, all she knew was, "It was time for someone to stand up - or in my case , to sit down. I refused to move. » (Parks, Rosa). She also said: “For half of my life, there were laws and customs in the South that kept African Americans separate from Caucasians and allowed whites to treat blacks without restriction. respect. I never thought it was fair, and ever since I was a child I tried to protest the disrespectful treatment. But it was very difficult to do anything about segregation and racism when white people had the power of the law behind them. » (The St. Petersburg Times) On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks fought for equal rights by refusing to give up her seat and was arrested. On December 5, 1955, Rosa Parks appeared in court for her actions and the same day, against Montgomery's bus. The Montgomery bus boycott has begun. newb23175&currPage=&disableHighlighting=true&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CA138069750 "Montgomery Bus Boycott in America." Charles Scribner Sons, 1999. United States History in Context.Web. May 1, 2014. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&u. =newb23175&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CBT2350011257