“I'm tired of you [people] pushing us around. » Rosa Parks said this because of the Jim Crow laws of the 1960s. What were the Jim Crow laws? Jim Crow laws were the South's way of circumventing the rights of black people. Some specific methods included were: segregation, poll taxes, literacy tests, busing, and transportation. “In 1943, indicates separate facilities for black customers at a Rome bus station. Segregation of blacks and whites became commonplace in the South with the advent of Jim Crow laws in the 1890s. In the 1890s, Georgia and other Southern states adopted a wide variety of Jim Crow laws which mandated segregation or racial separation in public facilities and effectively codified the region's tradition of white supremacy” (Hatfield, 2013). Segregation – meaning being separate but equal – was one of the ways the South circumvented the rights of black people. Some examples: They were not allowed to attend the same schools. Colored children were required to attend certain schools even if there was a white school nearby. Another example is that black people had to use different toilets and drinking fountains. Here's another example: They also had to go to certain restaurants and stores. In the summer, most of the places black people had to go were not air conditioned. They couldn't even travel in the same car as white people. They weren't even allowed to be buried where a white person was buried. Black people were not allowed to marry a white person. Black children were not even allowed to have the same textbooks as white children. Textbooks were not interchangeable, the school that had the book first had to keep it. Colored children were required to attend certain schools even if a white school was next door. Another way the South avoided terror, fearing attack at any time. In the end, Rosa Parks got what she wanted; black rights. Even though racism still exists today, black people are considered equal to white people. When she sat down in her bus seat and said, “I'm tired of you [people] pushing us around. » It made a difference in this world. She has become a positive role model for people of color. 114: legal-apartheid-jim-crow&Itemid=140 http://teachinghistory.org/historhttp://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crowy-content /beyond-the-textbook/24693 http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history /1-segregated/white-only-1.html