Bus driver

when the government is not fair and just. In the 1950’s and 60’s, many citizens of the United States began protesting unfair treatment of African Americans. One of these people was Rosa Parks. Parks had to face segregation problems in the Montgomery bus system. After a year of fighting,…

Rosa Parks was sitting in the first row for coloured people on the bus. There was no more seats left in the “white” section. The bus driver then told her and three others to move back, so the white people didn’t have to sit with the blacks. Rosa refused to move and got arrested. Rosa went to court and was found guilty and was fined $14. Rosa then had to overcome personal and financial hardships. She lost her job as a seamstress. She faced threats to her family and people who supported her…

the NAACP. At the time, Rosa’s spouse was also a member of the NAACP. Parks participated in these clubs for many years, until she perished on October 24, 2005 (Parks, Rosa). Before Rosa passed away, she was able to see how successful the Montgomery Bus Boycott had been. On November 23, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). The MIA confirmed that segregated bussing was unconstitutional (Rosa Parks). The blacks were able to ride the busses again,…

must not be afraid to defend your actions as long as your action are justifiable. Park's illustrated peaceful resistance on December 1, 1995, in Montgomery Alabama when she boarded a bus and decided to sit in the middle behind the whites-only section. Parker and three other African Americans were ordered by the driver to sacrifice their seats…

When the white section of the bus begins to filled up the driver of the bus James F Blake got up and ask Rosa and 3 other men to move. They all first refused to move seats, eventually the 3 other men move but Rosa refused to move seats and just moved enough so the white passenger could sit down. James realized…

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began with Rosa Parks' refusal to give up a seat on a city bus, started the Civil Rights Movement and has continued to affect American society today. This influential event has changed the social views of Americans and has shown what they are capable of, while introducing men and women who are now familiarly known across the nation. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was making her way home from the Montgomery Fair Department Store. Parks had been new in town, and…

weren't allowed to sit in the front of the bus. They could sit only in the middle or the back. And bus drivers could make black passengers move so that white people could sit down. It was unfair, but it was the law” (Source C). But one day Rosa Parks had enough, and because of this action she became a brave, inspiring, and strong person. “Rosa Parks was best known for her act of civil disobedience in December of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery,…

to sit in the back of the buses and after all the seats for white people filled up, the blacks had to get up and move farther back, sometimes even stand up. The bus drivers even treated them differently, if the blacks didn’t give a seat up for a white person, they would get yelled at and get kicked off the bus. If they didn’t get off the bus, the police would come and beat them and they would go to jail. Martin Luther King JR. made a plan, where they wouldn’t ride the buses until the law was…

The boycott of the Montgomery buses succeed because it was one of the first, large organized events that began the civil rights movement. Although Rosa Parks is remembered as the woman who refused to give her seat to a white man, she played a small role in this larger movement. The movement involved peoples such as African Americans, organizations, and even whites as well. Without the unity of African Americans and the group of white males and females who supported this movement, the rights that…

she refused to give her seat up to a white passenger. Immediately after the incident occurred, the city of Alabama lifted the law for segregation on city buses as well. The Montgomery city code declared that the bus drivers were like “police officers” as long as they were driving the bus. This means they have the right to keep colored and whites segregated.As the first lady of civil rights she is known as the “Mother of Freedom”. Some people don’t agree she is the “Mother of Freedom”, But many…