67, when he became the first African American to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Lyndon Johnson appointed Marshall to the honorable position. Marshall served for 24 years on the Supreme Court until 1991 when he retired. Marshall paved the way for many black advancements ("Thurgood Marshall"). On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks walked into the history books when she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a city bus. She was arrested for a violation of the city's segregation laws called the Jim Crow Laws. After challenging the laws in court with no success, Parks and others organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The 382-day boycott led to the desegregation of the city's buses. Parks and other people had lost their jobs, and they were harassed and threatened during the boycott, but the boy cotters held. It was an important turn in the Civil Rights Movement ("Rosa Parks"). Later in life, the Parks moved to Detroit where Rosa took a job working for Congressman John Conyers. She then founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Parks continued her work for the NAACP and other civil rights organizations. In 1986, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for her achievements in this area. She was also inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame. Parks is often known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. On her seventy-seventh birthday, Parks said, "‘I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people'" (qtd. In "Rosa Parks"). So, the problem has remained. Racism has swept through history and managed to survive even though there have been leaders, protests, and even laws to try and stop it. Therefore, people today are left with only one option. We cannot change the past, so why do we not try to learn from it? Of course, changing the fate of racism at present time is not an easy task. Even though Civil Rights...
