A fourteen year old boy’s trip to Money, Mississippi ended in his own death. A tired woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. A group of young boys rode a train to a death sentence. There are two obvious similarities in these three cases: one, the victims were all black, subjects to white supremacists and two, the three incidents contributed to a cohesive collective consciousness known as the Civil Rights Movement. In 1955, Emmett Till traveled to Tallahatchie County, Mississippi to visit his great uncle. His mother warned him to be careful in the south, where being black could get a person killed; however, Emmett was a young teenager that was very daring and impulsive. On August 24th, Emmett allegedly whistled at Carolyn
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After a long day of strenuous production, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to her house. The Montgomery City Code established that all public transportation be segregated; the seats in the front were reserved for white passengers and the seats in backs were for the “colored” passengers (Gaillard). Under the city’s bus system, a bus driver was allowed to move the segregation sign and black passengers further back to accommodate more white passengers if the seats in the front were filled. Rosa Parks was seated in the foremost row of the “colored section” when her bus driver told her and her fellow passengers to vacate their seats. Three of them got up and moved, but Parks remained seated. The driver became infuriated and he called the police. Parks was arrested for “disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance” (Schapiro). Rosa Parks was the secretary and quite engaged in the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as the NAACP. Her arrest “triggered a year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses by the city's black population and prompted a challenge of the ordinance's constitutionality in federal court” (Gaillard). The occurrence where the Montgomery citizens walked carpooled, or organized alternative form to move about the city was known as the Montgomery Boycott. It officially began December 5, 1965, the day Parks was found guilty and fined
After a long day of strenuous production, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to her house. The Montgomery City Code established that all public transportation be segregated; the seats in the front were reserved for white passengers and the seats in backs were for the “colored” passengers (Gaillard). Under the city’s bus system, a bus driver was allowed to move the segregation sign and black passengers further back to accommodate more white passengers if the seats in the front were filled. Rosa Parks was seated in the foremost row of the “colored section” when her bus driver told her and her fellow passengers to vacate their seats. Three of them got up and moved, but Parks remained seated. The driver became infuriated and he called the police. Parks was arrested for “disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance” (Schapiro). Rosa Parks was the secretary and quite engaged in the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, also known as the NAACP. Her arrest “triggered a year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses by the city's black population and prompted a challenge of the ordinance's constitutionality in federal court” (Gaillard). The occurrence where the Montgomery citizens walked carpooled, or organized alternative form to move about the city was known as the Montgomery Boycott. It officially began December 5, 1965, the day Parks was found guilty and fined