In The Eyes Of The Prize, Episode 1, Awakenings By Rosa Parks

One strategies of resistance that we have learned about was the resistance against the segregation on public transportation. Segregation on public transportation in the South was very serious. Black people were treated very badly from the white passengers and the bus operators. They were asked to sit all the way to the back, cheated on the fee, or had to give up their seats to the white passengers even though they were the ones to occupy the seats first.
There were many brave people and black organizations that were no longer tolerated to this form of treatment. They came up with strategies of resistance, tactics to fight against this form of segregation. According to professor Brown, she stated during her lecture that, “segregation does not …show more content…
Even though it was not really a big movement that had everyone in the community involved in, it was attractive enough to grab all the blacks’ attention and lead them to organize some other tactics that was bigger and more serious than Park’s act. According to the video, “Eyes on the Prize, Episode 1, Awakenings”, the video presented a scene of Rosa Park, with her resistance against the segregation of public transportation. Based on the video, the story happened in 1955, in Montgomery where it was a totally segregated community. In Montgomery, Rosa Park got arrested, and the reason was about her unwillingness to give up her seat to a white passenger. She was persistence to admit that she was guilty even in front of the police (cite). Her action is a small form of resistance that showed to the white community that black people were no longer surrendering to them. As Park was locked in jail, a stronger form of resistance had risen, “A one-day bus boycott”. Refer back to the “Eye on the Prize” video, E.D. Nixon and other black leaders came together and organized a one-day bus boycott. The black community organized by using cars to transport their people around. The one-day bus boycott was a very successful, so the black community asked to practice it longer, and it lasted longer than anyone expected. While the system of boycott was still going on at that time, some black women had to end up walking miles and miles without using the buses. According to Donie Jone, one of the speakers from the video, she told the interviewer that she had to walk miles and miles and was never thought about using the bus as the transportation. She also added further that sometimes there were very nice white women who would offer them a ride for free (cite). The form of boycott was the way to show to the whites and the bus company that the blacks were no longer submit to their oppression. They were able to live