Bus 2857: Controversial To The Civil Rights Movement

They were being forced to sit in the backs of busses just because some white man wanted to sit were a black man was seated. And what happened to those who refused to move? They were arrested. Today, racism is has almost vanished from America. But that would not be true without the help of one very important man.

In 1955, December 1st, another key figure Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. Four days later on December 5th, African Americans refused to ride buses. It lasted for 381 days. The US Supreme made the Montgomery bus systems to desegregate. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

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.

The goons tossed the camp yesterday I had a few letters written on the back of small pieces of cardboard. I had put them into a leg of a stool that I had hollowed out but, they took all of the furniture and burnt it in front of us while we had to stay in formation for two hours. A guy in the front rank passed out and they revived him and then beat him until he passed out again. We then carried his broken body to the hospital. It can’t really be called a hospital it is only an open hut like the rest.

On December 1 1955 Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man because she said her feet hurt and she was tired from work so Rosa parks didn’t move. She sparked the American civil rights movement of the 20 century. The police arrested her the following day of on the scene. The police convicted her with violation of chapter 6 section 2 Alabama’s city code was bus drivers the

After the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment a few things changed for them. On December 1 1995a black lady had refused to give up her seat to a white men, therefore she was arrested. On a bus all blacks were supposed to sit in the back and whites on the front. After that problem Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. had started a non-violent boycott on busses. The non-violent boycott lead to bus companies desegregating their buses.

Well, one way they are connected is because Rosa Parks wouldn’t give her seat up to a white man, in To Kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson was accused of rapping a white woman which he really didn’t do. Back then everyone was treated differently all the white and black people were separated. When you go one a school bus first 10 rows were saved for the white kids or adults and all the black people had to sit in the back or on the other side of the bus. No matter what the situation was between Rosa Parks and the white man, Rosa Parks was taken to court over her not giving her seat up to a white man. Tom Robinson was taken to court over a white woman accusing him of rapping her, she thought it would be nice to have Tom come over when he would walk by and have him fix something in her house.

March Book One: Owen Mei 1. What are some examples of segregation and the Jim Crow laws in the 1940s - 1960s? Examples of segregation is that blacks weren 't allowed to go to school. They weren 't served at restaurants and were to sit at the end of a bus. Some Jim Crow laws were that they sat at the end of buses and have different rooms.

On December 1, 1955, there was an encounter between a black woman and a white man. Rosa Parks was her name, and she refused to move to the back of the bus so the white man could sit at the front. After this incident, a boycott was organized. The organizers along with other black groups held their meeting in the basement of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. This is where Dr. King preached.

Her refusal to give up a seat to a white man on a bus caused Rosa to be thrown in jail. This caused a citywide bus boycott. The city had no choice except to lift the law of segregation on city

One historical event we have studied this year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott which began on December 5th 1955 and ended on December 20th 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama. African Americans had been discriminated against since slavery began in 1619, and even after slavery was abolished in 1863, black people still faced extreme racism every day. An example of this is the enforced segregation of public buses. The front section of the buses were for white passengers and the back section was for Black passengers. Although black people made up 70% of the passengers of public buses, if the bus was full and a white person wanted to get on then the black people would have to give up their seats for the whites and stand.

“....She was charged with ‘refusing to obey orders of bus driver.’.... Her arrest became a rallying point around which the African American community organized a bus boycott in protest of the discrimination they had endured for years…. For a quiet act of defiance that resonated throughout the world, Rosa Parks is known and revered as the ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.’” (“An Act of Courage”). Another event that took place to change society was “The Greensboro Sit-Ins.” Four black men, known as the “Greensboro Four,” got the idea for a sit-in from the fight for racial equality, and they “...had also been spurred to action by the brutal murder in 1955 of a young black boy, Emmett Till…” (“The Greensboro Sit-Ins”). Even though the four men were not given service, the men did not give up their seats.