“I'm tired of you [people] mistreating us.” Rosa Parks said this because of the Jim Crow laws in the 1960s. What were the Jim Crow laws? Jim Crow laws were the South's way of shunning the rights of blacks. Some specific ways included were of; segregation, poll taxes, literacy tests, buses and transportation.“In 1943, he points to separate facilities for black customers at a bus station in Rome. Segregation of blacks and whites became a common occurrence in the South with the rise of Jim Crow laws in the 1890s. In the 1890s, Georgia and other Southern states passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that 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 avoided black rights. Some examples are: they could not attend the same schools. Black children had to attend certain schools even though there was a white school down the street. Another example is that blacks had to use different bathrooms and different drinking fountains. Here's another example: They also had to go to some restaurants and shops. In the summer most places blacks had to go did not have air conditioning. They couldn't even ride in the same train car as whites. They couldn't even 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 could keep it. Black children had to attend certain schools, even if a white school is just down the street. Another way the South avoided terror, fearing attack at any moment. In the end, Rosa Parks got what she wanted; rights for blacks. Even though racism still exists today, blacks are considered equal to whites. When she sat down on the bus seat and said, “I'm tired of you [people] pushing us around.” He made a difference in this world. She has become a positive role model for people of color. Works Cited http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation http://racism.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=501:jcrow02&catid= 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-segregati/solo-bianco- 1.html