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Rosa's childhood was greatly influenced by the [[Jim Crow]] laws of [[the South]], which [[segregate]]d white people from black people in almost every part of their daily lives. This included public restrooms, drinking fountains, education and transportation. For the children attending school, there was busing for the white children to their school, but the black children were required to walk to another school. [[Public transportation]] followed this line of segregation except that blacks were allowed on the bus as long as they sat in the back, apart from the whites.
Rosa's childhood was greatly influenced by the [[Jim Crow]] laws of [[the South]], which [[segregate]]d white people from black people in almost every part of their daily lives. This included public restrooms, drinking fountains, education and transportation. For the children attending school, there was busing for the white children to their school, but the black children were required to walk to another school. [[Public transportation]] followed this line of segregation except that blacks were allowed on the bus as long as they sat in the back, apart from the whites.
Parks joined the campaign to free the [[Scottsboro Boys]] in 1932, and was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the [[NAACP]] in 1943. As an NAACP member, Parks investigated the gang-rape of Recy Taylor, a Black woman from Alabama, and helped organize the Committee for Equal Justice for Recy Taylor, which brought national attention to the systemic sexual assault of Black women and helped lay the organizing foundations of the future [[Civil Rights Movement]].
The Jim Crow Laws that segregated blacks from whites were created by white members of the [[Democratic Party]] in the Southern states between 1876 and 1963. They created many barriers for [[black]] voters and had several regulations including banning interracial marriage and providing racially segregated school systems. This continued existence of this policy created and continued great political tension between the Northern and Southern states, the Democratic and Republican Parties, on the issues of black rights.
The Jim Crow Laws that segregated blacks from whites were created by white members of the [[Democratic Party]] in the Southern states between 1876 and 1963. They created many barriers for [[black]] voters and had several regulations including banning interracial marriage and providing racially segregated school systems. This continued existence of this policy created and continued great political tension between the Northern and Southern states, the Democratic and Republican Parties, on the issues of black rights.