Lucy Maud Montgomery

Have you ever thought of what it would feel like to be treated differently than others because your skin color was different. On December 1, 1955 a regular civil rights activist black woman was coming home from her job and got on an ordinary bus. She sat in the back in the section for black people. The bus kept filling and filling and the bus driver noticed that they were several white people standing. He stopped the bus and moved the black people sign back a row. The blacks who were sitting in…

this essay, the life and achievements of Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks will be discussed. Rosa McCauley Parks is known today as the “mother of the civil rights movement” because her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat sparked the pivotal Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. (Hare, 2008) Early Life and Education Born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa was subject to racial discrimination from an early age. Throughout her life, she had been sent to…

Equality and Justice - false promises a nation was created to protect. The historical drama, Selma (2014), directed by Ava DuVernay, depicts some of the struggles African-Americans faced in the pursuit of equality and justice during the mid 1950’s to 1960’s, and the role Martin Luther King Jr. played in his attempt to overcome such inequalities. During this time period, racial segregation was prominent, especially in the southern states. The government justified such segregation based on the…

According to exhibit A, it states that Originally there were ten seats reserved for the white people of the bus. There was twenty-six seats that were assigned for the black people on the bus. They are not sure, there is a dispute if there was an extra seat in the black section. Rosa Parks was located directly behind the whites. The driver requested that the black people that were directly behind the whites move further back, so that the white person that was being attended, had a seat. Rosa…

If you have ever been to the beach before, you know what most people go for. To lay in the sand while soaking up the sun drinking on a cold one while listening to the waves roll. Recently, there has been a problem with drinking alcohol on the beach. The cities feel like it is increasing the risk of crime on the beaches. Crimes like: Sexual Assault, Underage Drinking, Disorderly Conduct and obviously Public Intoxication. It first took place in the spring of 2015, and the most recent banding of…

Freedom Rides were essential for making sure that states were complying with the desegregation of buses. In 1961 freedom rides were organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to see if the Supreme Court’s declaration that the segregation of transportation facilities was unconstitutional actually desegregated the bus system. The SNCC was involved in the rides as well. CORE, CNCC and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed a coordinating committee to organize the…

many Montgomery African Americans to boycott city buses. With the help from some other activists, Robinson distributed more than 50,000 flyers over a few nights. These flyers got the word out, raised awareness, and gave African Americans that one reason as to why they should stand up and fight. Therefore, the methods used by Jo Ann Robinson were clearly effective and tactical in the bus boycotts. As well as Jo Ann Robinson, Edgar David Daniel Nixon was a powerful activists in the Montgomery Bus…

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone There were many others who felt the same way,” Rosa Parks once stated. She continued to fight for her rights even though that resulted in her being placed in jail. She managed to influence a lot of people because of her neverending desire to be free. She was part of a group named National Association for the Advancement of Colored People[NAACP] that group helped tie people together. Because she stood up for herself, influenced a…

up against racism, and was an avid advocate for equality. Parks was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was a long-time member of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). While she was not the first African-American woman to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, she generated the spark that…

The Freedom Riders had more volunteers, and they continued their mission. The remaining group left Birmingham to Montgomery, and when they arrived thousands of whites brutally and extremely attacked the CORE members. The lack of police enforcement and security pressured President Kennedy to help. But the journey didn’t end there. They continued onto Mississippi even…