It began on Dec 5, 1955 and ended Dec 20, 1956 in which Parks had lost her job coincidentally. It ended because the Supreme court ruled it unconstitutional to have segregation in the buses, even if segregation was still “constitutional” elsewhere but only because of the boycott led by Parks and King which was that African Americans wouldn't ride the buses provided for transportation by the city that were segregated and unfair to them since they would be the ones that would have to move to accommodate Whites. It was successful, nonviolent, and a large piece of history to have ever occured. During the boycott, Rosa and King dealt with various amount of hate from Whites. As Rod L. Harmon says in his book American Civil Rights …show more content…
One characteristic that is really effective in a leader is integrity. This is because leaders need to establish trust within them and their followers because followers won't follow if they can't trust their leader or if their leader doesn't live up to what they say. Integrity could also mean to have moral rights for themselves. Rosa parks showed integrity by standing up for herself even when it was against the law to stand up for herself knowing the consequences of getting beat up or arrested but she continued on with her choice. She did this to fight for not only herself but for everyone that was around her even if it came to the possibility that it wouldn’t benefit her in the future due to any circumstance that