Lucy Maud Montgomery

violent resistance or violent tactics. Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white gentleman is a prime example of how civil disobedience has accomplished so much through the years. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, she was arrested ,but not once did she think about fighting because it was against her beliefs. Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up led to the Montgomery Bus…

joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter’s youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon” –a post she held until 1957” (“Biography.com Editors”). On that infamous day, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks got on the bus like any other day, but something changed. Rosa was ordered to surrender her seat to a white man, but she refused. “The police arrested Rosa at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the…

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…

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Alabama State Teacher’s College. She has to cut short in her high school diploma because her mother became very ill. In 1932, she married with Raymond Parks who supported and encouraged her formal education, so she graduated in 2 years later. The Montgomery city segregated many years for white people and black people such as school, churches, and stores. Usually, it signed “For Colored Only” or “For White Only”. It…

Ava DuVernay’s Selma tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Freedom Marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to secure voting rights for African Americans. Having come out in 2014, Although any historical film is an interpretation of history, this movie accurately depicted what African Americans went through. The first scene introduces Annie Lee Cooper who was denied the right to vote after not being able to name the 67 county judges in Alabama. This was one of the many real…

headed east out of Selma to Montgomery on U.S. Route 80 for the fight to be able to vote. These people that were traveling to Montgomery are called “foot soldiers”. These black and white men and women were fighting for the rights of black civilians for all of the right reasons, but the rest of the community did not want these men and women protesting. This is the story of the famous “foot soldiers”. The “foot soldiers” were mostly African Americans that traveled to Montgomery from Selma,…

In July 1, 1960, eight high school students protested at a lunch counter in the store Woolworths. These high school students were protesting about segregated lunch counters. The counter owner closed the counter until the students left. The eight students rotated between the three stores Woolworths, W.T. Grants, and People’s Drug Store. All reacted the same way by closing down the counter. The police could do nothing because there were no trespass or complaints filed. The store owners tried…

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr, better known as Muhammad Ali was born on January 17th, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. Muhammad’s parents, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. and Odessa Grady Clay, were middle-class citizens and lived in the “nice” part of town. His father was a sign and mural painter, and his mother was a stay at home mom. On sundays, him and his family, including his younger brother Rahaman Ali, would all go to Mount Zion Baptist Church. Muhammad attended DuValle Middle School, then he went…

and lack of rights towards African-Americans. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman, was arrested for not giving up her seat for a white man on a public bus. Later that day, many black men and women embarked on a 380-day bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. This boycott was led by none other than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The date is August 28, 1963. There are hundreds of thousands of people in front of…