All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
Category Archive: Rosa Parks
I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room… There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.