Rosa Parks and James Blake (bus driver) enter the scene. Many whites sit toward the front of the bus while blacks take the back due to laws supporting segregation. Because of this, quite a few Negros don’t ride the bus; they find it demeaning since the front of the bus has much more space and less heat compared to the back.
Rosa is sitting down in her seat located in the fifth row, the “Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat.
James looks back and sees that there are no open spaces and directs his gaze toward the Negros in the nearest row to the whites.
James: Move y’all, I want those two seats.
Three black passengers move to the back; Rosa does not.
James: Are you going
Rosa is sitting down in her seat located in the fifth row, the “Colored section,” of the bus alongside three other Negros when a white man gets on, looking for an open seat.
James looks back and sees that there are no open spaces and directs his gaze toward the Negros in the nearest row to the whites.
James: Move y’all, I want those two seats.
Three black passengers move to the back; Rosa does not.
James: Are you going