Rosa Parks Observation Report

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According to exhibit A, it states that Originally there were ten seats reserved for the white people of the bus. There was twenty-six seats that were assigned for the black people on the bus. They are not sure, there is a dispute if there was an extra seat in the black section. Rosa Parks was located directly behind the whites. The driver requested that the black people that were directly behind the whites move further back, so that the white person that was being attended, had a seat. Rosa parks was then arrested for not listening to the orders of the bus drivers.

After that, Martin Luther King used a non-violence approach to protest until the grievances were granted. They had a successful day of protesting, they feared that they might
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Her first request was that, blacks have the right to sit from in the front of the bus. She also asked that black weren’t forced to pay at the front and then exit and get on from the back doors of the bus. Last, she requested that the bus stops at every residential area that were occupied by blacks as they do in communities where white reside. Then she off into saying that they are happy that they started to pick them up in black residential areas but areas but are still unhappy that they still practice the sitting and boarding procedures according to exhibit …show more content…
Then they started doing a carpool. They even had a center for the black people to ride in a carpool. Rufus Lewis explained to them that there are three methods to an addition to the car pool for moving the population. The first method was to pick up Hitch Hikers, the second method was to pick up the servants of white housewives, the last method was to pick up blacks that were simply walking on the streets, and sidewalks. He then explained in the meeting that the car pool must not be stopped. There were a total of 28 people that were black people taxi drivers that were arrested and they stated that they would get arrested again and again according to Exhibit

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