Rosa Parks Museum

During the SOA trip, we stopped at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. The museum was very interesting and I learned a lot of things that I did not know growing up. At the museum we learned that the picture of Rosa Parks that are in history books is a staged picture and not where she was sitting when she was arrested. Rosa Parks was in the "black" section of the bus, but since the bus driver did not like her and there were white people standing in the isle of the bus she was suppose to get up and give her seat to the white women. It shows how bad censorship is because growing up kids learn that she was sitting in the "white" section of the bus, which is not the case. Rosa Parks was an activist before the day she was arrested but that day made her want to make a change even more. While at a camp, white people fed her and cooked for her, she said it was a nice feeling but that as soon as she goes home she will have to be the one doing that for white people and have to do everything on her own. It was interesting that she was able to see what it feels like to be a white person. The bus boycott was the most interesting part because the blacks decided to make their own business and buy cars and transport blacks to their destination rather than taking the bus.