Bus 2857: Controversial To The Civil Rights Movement

The Mongomery Bus Boycott, which took place on December 5, 1956 and lasted until December 20, 1956. What this exactly was is when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The most prominant name of this time that made the boycott what it is today is Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man while on a Montgomery bus. Thus, resulting in her getting arrested and fined.

Written by Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele, “The Tallahassee Bus Protest Story” explains the account of two African-American women that were ordered to stand in a jam-packed bus instead of sitting on the last available seat because a woman (who was white) was occupying the end of that seat. Even though the white woman did not mind if the African-American women shared the seat with her, the bus driver stood firm in his belief that it would be inappropriate and beyond unthinkable for people of color to be seated with a person that was white. The two African-American women decided that they were not going to accept this blatant prejudice and proceeded to stay where they were and not stand or move to the colored section of the bus but their efforts were short lived since the bus driver called the police to detain and charge them for disorderly conduct and “placing themselves in a position to riot”. These swift series of event prompted swift outrage and shock among FAMU students and those within

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, on a bus, Rosa Parks said “no”. Parks was arrested because she refused to vacate her seat in the white section on the bus. Just like Parks, many blacks were arrested and even killed in response to civil rights. There were many bombings too. On October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a church.

African Americans from Montgomery stopped riding the bus for 13 months. It ending with the Supreme Court’s final ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional and was no longer allowed.

In 1955, after years of being crammed into the back of the bus, and forced to give up their seat to any white person who wanted it, they said enough. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to

Moral values were lost in the mid 1950s and lasted until 1968. African Americans were considered “lower class” compared to whites. There was a line that the colored race could not pass before authority. If blacks questioned authority, it was paid through crucial consequences. Segregation creates hatred, takes away rights, and kills family heritage.

This event took place in 1954. Not too much later, in 1955, Rosa Parks was sitting on a bus. When a group of white people could not find seats, they told Rosa and a few other black people to get out of the seat. History.com said “...the bus driver instructed Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats. Parks refused and was arrested” (Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks).

On December 1st it wasn't Rosa Parks first time resisting to give up her seat. On the first incident, she didn't want to pay in the front of the bus then walk outside to get in the back of the bus because it was raining. The bus driver kicked her off the bus and made her walk home in the rain, and her house was five miles away.(Monica Sanders, Understanding the HistoricalImpact of Rosa Parks) When December 1st rolled around, Rosa didn't want to give up her seat to a white person,(just so happens to be the same bus driver as it was a year prior who kicked her out) so the bus driver called the cops and arrested her. This made the black community very angry.

This became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Bus companies began to loose tons of money because whites even began to join in. Eventually, buses desegregated so they would start gaining the money they were losing.

In 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. She was not the first one to not move on a bus. A 15-year old named Claudette Colvin did the same thing just 9 months before Rosa Parks. Her not giving up her seat set the community into a boycott which was known as the bus Boycott. Martin Luther King helped lead the boycott along with the Montgomery Improvement Association.

One social movement, that came about during the Jim Crow era in the U.S history, is known as the Montgomery bus boycott, in the 1950 's. An African-American female, Rosa Parks in Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white person; it resulted in her arrest due to misconduct, and it lead to a social movement of the African American community for the abolition of the bus segregation law. The arrest and the prejudice from law enforcement, brings about the policing relation with the public

In the 1950’s the civil rights movement was going on so the blacks and whites were segregated. One day on December 1 1955 an African American clothes worker named Rosa Parks got onto a city bus after a hard day of work. She found the first open seat and sat in it. Rosa was told to exit because she was sitting in the “Whites Only” section, but she refused to.

Board of Education case, came another pivotal moment for minority rights. On December 1st, 1955 the renowned Rosa Parks forever changed history as she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, as a result of not sitting in the back of the bus where African Americans were assigned. She became a prominent civil rights activist, and boycotted the Montgomery bus department for more than a year following her arrest. Among those who joined her was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The CRM initially began in 1955 with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give her seat to a white passenger. It was the Jim Crow etiquette for a black person to give their seat to a white person, so this small act of civil disobedience was hugely frowned upon. This cause an uproar that led to Parks being fined and arrested. This was the first step in Martin Luther King 's peaceful resistance as Parks’ actions led to as many as 50 000 African-Americans boycotting the buses.

Unbenounced to her, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat to a white man ignited one of the largest and most successful mass movements in opposition to racial segregation in history. At a time when African Americans experienced racial discrimination from the law and within their own communities on a daily basis, they saw a need for radical change and the Montgomery bus boycott helped push them closer to achieving this goal. Unfortunately, much of black history is already excluded from textbooks, therefore to exclude an event as revolutionary to the civil rights movement as this one would be depriving individuals of necessary knowledge. The Montgomery bus boycott, without a doubt, should be included in the new textbook because politically