Dialogue: entrevue entre Rosa Parks et journaliste

Dialogue

interview between Rosa Parks and the journalist

Hello Ms. Parks

 hello Sir nice to meet you.

Are you ready for the interview?

Of course I am!

So; What did the NAACP protest against?

 The national association for the ad NAACP protests against racial discrimination Afro-American people and black people prejudices; which means racial violence and laws of segregation.

What were the laws for the segregation between colored and white people?

In southern states, there were Jim Crow laws which forbid the mixed marriage, the mixed school, and sometimes we can’t vote because of our skin color.

Did you have to face racial discrimination?

Yes, because of the Jim crow laws we always have to face at racial discrimination such as we can’t drink water in the same fountain or we can’t go to the same theatre for example.

What did the association boycott? Why?

The NAACP had called a boycott for one year buses in Alabama because there had a separation because black people aren’t allowed to sit at white people's place ; it is unfair isn’t it? And the all community refused to be an inferior of a racial people, we wanted to be treated as theirs.

What happened in the bus? How did you react?

This day, on Tuesday, September 1, 1955, I was very tired and I took the bus at a place of the colored people. All places for white people were taken when four white men wanted to sit. So the driver of the bus asked to riders to liberate place at the front of colored section. Three obeyed but not me and the driver was very angry and he came to me and he told me “why don’t you stand up” and I said “I don’t think I should stand up”

Did you give up when you were threatened?

No but I wasn’t really threatened this day but I was encouraged by the Afro-American people and the NAACP who had called to boycott buses the next day. But I was threatened and harassed because of the boycott and I was forced to go in jail.

After being in jail, how did you feel?

After, I still was threatened even my husband and I were fired at our job.

So we decided to move out to Detroit, Michigan with my mother.

Did you participate at the civil rights march?

No I didn’t but I founded an association called the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to introduce at young people the important civil  rights and the Underground Railroad sites.

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