How Did Rosa Parks Affect The Alabama's Rights Movement

On December 1, 1955, a rather cold day in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42 year old seamstress, Rosa Parks, got on the Cleveland Avenue bus after a long day of work. She sat down with no intention to start a fight(“Rosa Parks”Biography.com). As a black woman, she was required to sit in the back of the bus according to the laws of segregation at that time. Whites and blacks were segregated in many ways of life - restaurants, drinking fountains, public bathrooms as well as all forms of public transportation. The injustices were felt by many like Parks. But few dared to speak against it. Rosa Parks refusal to sit in the back of the bus marked a significant moment in the fight for equality between races.
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But finally, on June 4, 1956 theses laws finally did change and African Americans could do anything a white person could do.(“Rosa Parks”Biography.com).This all ended with a surprise that angered the people, and started a riot in Montgomery. The day after Parks arrest, black churches all over Montgomery got together to discuss a boycott. They announced this on December 4, and they published an article on the front page, spreading the news. People chose Martin Luther King Jr. (writer of “I Have a Dream”) to lead this boycott. The boycott of public buses by[African Americans] began on the day of Parks court hearing and it lasted 381 days(“Rosa Parks” History.com). However, blacks had to carpool, or even walk to places,without taking the bus.
During the boycott, Parks got arrested again for her role in the boycott. She was on the executive board of the group organizing the boycott, and she was in charge of arranging car rides for people that needed to work or go somewhere. On February 21, 1956, a grand jury came and arrested 114 plus Parks for violating state law of the organized boycott(“Rosa Parks” History.com).Therefore, Parks had been arrested for a second