Rosa Parks
"Why do you push us around?"Mrs. Parks asked the police.
"I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest."
Rosa Parks in 1956
It was a cold day in Montgomery Alabama, December 1,1955. Rosa Parks, a 42 year old African American woman had just finished up a hard day at work as a tailor's assistant in the Montgomery Fair Department Store. She got on to the bus, paid her 10 cents, and sat down in the back of the bus assigned to the colored people. 
After a few stops the whole white and colored sections were filled. At this stop however, one white man was left standing. That was against the law. The law was that a colored person would have to give up his/her seat for a white person. Another law was that a white person could not sit in the same row as a colored person. So, since Rosa was sitting in the first row of the colored section she and the rest of her row would have to stand, but Rosa wouldn't move. The bus driver, James Blake, came to the back of the bus and told Rosa that if she didn't move he would phone the police. Rosa didn't want to get up so she told the driver to go right ahead and phone the police. That is exactly what he did.
When the police arrived they asked Rosa if she was aware that she was breaking the law. Rosa was fully aware of the fact. At this point she asked,"Why do you push us around?" The police answered, "I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest."
By the time Rosa was put in jail, the whole black community new about the arrest, however they did not know that this small action would help end the segragation in the south.
All of Rosa's life she had to live with the segragation laws that kept her separated from the Caucasians, it also allowed the Caucasians to treat the African Americans disrespectfully. Rosa never thought this was fair since the day she learned about all the segragation. When she was a kid she would protest against disrespectfull treatment. But since the white people had the law behind them, it was very difficult to change it.
When Rosa refused to give up her seat she had know idea that it would help stop all the segragation laws in the south. Rosa only new that she was very tired of being pushed around by the white people. Rosa quoted,"I was a regular person, just as good as anybody else. There had been a few times in my life when I had been treated by white people like a regular person, so I knew what that felt like. It was time that other white people started treating me that way."