Bus driver

The Giants Stood Upon Many people today are well aware of the amazing feats done by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From the nonviolence in the Montgomery Bus Boycott where he picked up a following, to the historic March on Washington where he delivered his awe-inspiring “I Have a Dream” Speech (History.com 1). There is no doubt whatsoever, Doctor King was an incredibly influential person in the Civil Rights Movement whose legacy would never be forgotten. However, Isaac Newton once said “If I have…

a ride home from my swing dance class that night. I chose to do this because I would have been taking the bus very late at night and this did not feel safe. This experience showed me the impacts that being forced to rely on transit can have on other areas of life. In this situation, neither option felt good to me. I felt that it was a choice between risking my personal safety by taking the bus at eleven o clock at night or if I hadn’t been able to secure a ride, skipping swing dance entirely.…

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.…

seamstress and Raymond worked as barber and he was also self educated. Besides rosa being the mother of civil rights movement she also work at a shirt factory and she was a seamstress for a store. Rosa got on the the bus when she confronted by the bus driver to give up her seat for a white passenger in the colored section so she was arrested for refusing to moving seat and she was fined.so everyone protested agenist it even Martan Luter King. Martin Luther king made a protest…

activist, Rosa Parks was sitting in a row of blacks on a full bus when the driver ordered her row to stand for a white passenger. Parks refused to stand. Thus, she was arrested. Due to Jim Crow Laws, in the Southern part of America, it was normal for blacks to sit in the back while whites sat in front on busses. If the bus filled, the front-most row of blacks would have to stand to allow the next white passenger to sit. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from December 5, 1955, to December 20,…

University , a state track meet; all of my friends were there from different cities, schools, and counties. The day of the track meet, the track team was leaving Sunnydale High School at two o’clock in the morning. As the team was boarding the bus, I knew I was i n for a long trip. The morning was very dark and humid; I could barely see where I was…

The ugly yellow school bus wasn’t hard to miss? Was it a sign? Getting myself off the bus on the first day of school was brutal. There were so many people and it (the school) was so crowded. But, I just followed the herd to my classes. Unlike Odysseus, I was not afraid of sirens. In fact,…

I have the stupidest job ever. I thought to myself as I watched over my three elderly patients in the retirement home. The three elders I get to watch over all day is Joseph Lou, Carol Robins, and Ellis Smith; Joseph is the most interesting out of them three. I was working at the retirement home one day after school when my girlfriend, Mary Hunt, and my only other friend, Joe Luke, came to visit me. We are all freshman in high school and we also are all in foster care. I got put into foster…

It all started at the bus stop it was around 5 pm i was getting ready to go to work i worked the graveyard shift almost no one would ever come so i would just do school work or sleep so i was on the bus going to work then i fell asleep i woke up and it was 10 pm i was in some different place it smelled like alcohol and vomit i had no idea where i was i could only see the top of the bus i had almost no money and my cell phone was dead i couldn't even stay on the bus because it was the poor man's…

about the Bus Boycott had 40,000 people get on there bus in two days?90% of black people stayed off of white peoples bus so they lost money.Martin Luther King jr said “Rosa Parks character is impeccable and her dedication was deep-rooted she was one of the most respected in the negro community. This Paragraph will explain what the Montgomery Bus Boycott did.Black leaders organised meetings and road on the boycott .African American residents mobilized around the boycott .For the Bus Boycott to…