Why Is Segregation Unfair

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Segregation is unfair. Everybody is worthy of integration. For instance Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man. This rule was unfair that she was expected to give up her seat because of segregation. Ruby Bridges was also treated unfairly as a little girl wanting to go to school at a white school.

Many types of protests took place to change segregation and encourage integration. A woman named Rosa Parks was arrested on February 22, 1956 (pg 29 scholastic) for not being segregated. To solve this problem of the bus segregation in Montgomery Alabama the NAACP started the bus boycott which lasted 382 days.

Ruby Bridges was also treated unfairly as a little girl wanting to go to school at a white school. I

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