Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, takes a stand when 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…

Heros in the past. some of the people in the past changed history that effected the future."For Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, courage ment refusing to give up her seat on a public bus." (Source 1) She was standing up for her rites at the time on the bus. "When Rosa parksboarded that bus in 1955, she sat down in the first row of seats designated fo African Americans. Montomery law reserved the front ten rows of seats on the bus for white passengers. Sometimes the buses became very crowded…

Back Woman Disobeys Bus Rules by:Rebecca Whisenhunt Bus Mishap- On February 4,1913, in Tuskegee Alabama. A black woman named Rosa Louise McCauley, refuses to give up bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This sudden incident happened on the citywide boycott bus, it stirred up nationwide segregation in public facilities. When Rosa Parks was a child she experienced racial discrimination activism. Her mother and father had separated when she was a child. Rosa Parks in her seat…

Montgomery bus Boycott A woman named Rosa Parks was arrested and treated badly by the Montgomery police. In 1955 women who rode the buses in Montgomery were arrested for refusing to give up their seats to white men and women. Another woman named Jo Ann Robinson made handbills and handed them out to college students, that handbill told people to stay off the buses for one whole day. Instead of staying on the buses for one day, Martin Luther King, Jr boycotted the buses for a whole year. People…

to the students and teachers to celebrate Black History month. Jackson was on his was to march for the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. He is seventy five years old and he was at the original march fifty two years ago from Selma to Montgomery. Jackson was also close friends with Martin Luther King Jr. and they worked together for Civil Rights during those times. Jackson’s speech to the students of Montevallo High School focused on unity. Jackson said the “I am somebody” poem…

America had gone through so many things when the Montgomery Bus Boycott was going on. They just had gone through the Vietnam War, which was hard for America to overcome. America was at one time almost in all out nuclear war with Russia, better known as the cold war. But now you have blacks fighting for the same rights that the whites had. They were breaking laws, but yet they were not using any violence while breaking these laws, because their leader Martin Luther King Jr. knew that they could…

threats over the phone as well as via mails. This position got so extreme that eventually, Martin got arrested and his house got bombed.The campaign was ended in 1956, with Supreme Court outlawing racial discrimination in public transport. Montgomery public buses started working on desegregated basis. Martin Luther King Jr. appeared as a prominent civil-rights leader after the success of the bus boycott. In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr.…

Rosa Parks was very famous for standing up for her rights. She became an icon of the black civil rights just by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. She was an African American living in Montgomery Alabama. In 1995 on December 1st she was heading home from work she rode a public bus. When a white man told her to give him her seat she said no and did not get up. After those many people started to boycott the public trains. This was out up by Martin Luther King Jr. himself. After these turn of…

The Mother of Civil Rights The simple refusal to get out of a seat would be the action that changed the world forever. Rosa Parks was a crucial part in the decline of segregation. Rosa Parks' act on the bus that day and activeness in civil rights organizations, would be the first step to end racial segregation and discrimination. Rosa Parks has positively benefitted modern society by helping abolish segregation and opening the doors for African Americans and other Civil Rights activists.…

The significance of unified people in Montgomery against segregated acted as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement; inspiring other cities to do the same as them and challenge racism. Taking a stand is never easy, especially when the topic is as controversial as race in the 20th century. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a success because of the collective action that the community took to further the Civil Rights Movement. The people losing the battle then are praised and exalted for their…