Speech About Rosa Parks

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Have you ever heard of Rosa Parks? Rosa Parks is a famous African-American lady that helped the black people of the U.S.A out a lot ... She helped the blacks by breaking the color rule on the bus here 's what happened... So, one day after a hard day at work, Rosa Parks boarded a bus so that she could go home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers. The color rule stated ' ' that all public transportation be segregated and that bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code. While operating a bus, drivers were required to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. - biography.com... …show more content…

As the bus Rosa was riding continued on its route, it began to fill with white passengers. Eventually, the bus was full and the driver noticed that several white passengers were standing in the aisle. The driver of Rosa’s bus stopped the bus and moved the sign separating the two sections back one row, asking four black passengers to give up their seats. The city 's bus ordinance didn 't specifically give drivers the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone, regardless of color. Three of the other black passengers on Rosa’s bus complied with the driver, but Rosa refused and remained seated. The driver demanded, "Why don 't you stand up?" to which Rosa replied, "I don 't think I should have to stand up." The driver called the police and had her arrested. Later, Rosa recalled that her refusal wasn 't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in. -

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