Segregation Case Involving Bus Ride
Dimon Brown
Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks, a negro woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus and was arrested. She had been tired after a long day working as a seamstress in a department store. When she got on the bus to go home, she sat on the fifth row- the first row of the colored section. The bus became full which meant that the seats nearer the front were given to the white passengers. The the bus driver, James Blake ordered her and three other African Americans close to her to move back to the back of the bus. The others did what they were told but Parks did not move. The bus driver had threatened to have her arrested. Even after him saying that still parks did not move and was arrested and fined $10 in police court.
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Rosa Parks on Montgomery bus.
Negro female Plaintiffs
Dimon Brown …show more content…
Actually many women had been arrested for the same reason. One of the women had been Claudette Colvin. Born September 5, 1939. March 2nd, months before Parks had been arrested Colvin had been commanded by the bus driver to give up her seat to a white woman when she was riding home from school. Colvin refused. Police showed up and dragged the woman off in handcuffs. She went on to be one of the the four black female plaintiffs in the legal case Browder V. Gayle. This case helped the practice of segregation on Montgomery buses. (A plaintiff is a person who brings a case against another in a court of
Dimon Brown
Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks, a negro woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus and was arrested. She had been tired after a long day working as a seamstress in a department store. When she got on the bus to go home, she sat on the fifth row- the first row of the colored section. The bus became full which meant that the seats nearer the front were given to the white passengers. The the bus driver, James Blake ordered her and three other African Americans close to her to move back to the back of the bus. The others did what they were told but Parks did not move. The bus driver had threatened to have her arrested. Even after him saying that still parks did not move and was arrested and fined $10 in police court.
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Rosa Parks on Montgomery bus.
Negro female Plaintiffs
Dimon Brown …show more content…
Actually many women had been arrested for the same reason. One of the women had been Claudette Colvin. Born September 5, 1939. March 2nd, months before Parks had been arrested Colvin had been commanded by the bus driver to give up her seat to a white woman when she was riding home from school. Colvin refused. Police showed up and dragged the woman off in handcuffs. She went on to be one of the the four black female plaintiffs in the legal case Browder V. Gayle. This case helped the practice of segregation on Montgomery buses. (A plaintiff is a person who brings a case against another in a court of