Montgomery Bus Boycott

“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation,” by Coretta Scott King. I believe that freedom has to be rewon. In every generation freedom has to be rewon because people that make a difference only make a difference in that time of age. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. He led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s. In the spring of 1963, he gave a speech “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation…

Home directed by Richard Pearce is an inspiring movie recounting the experiences of regular citizens during the Montgomery bus boycott, narrated by a young white girl Mary Katherine Thompson. The theme of the movie is that one has to do what’s right regardless of what other people think. The movie starts by showing a regular day for the Thompsons, a well-off white family living in Montgomery Alabama. Their black maid, Odessa Cotter, helps to cook and clean the house while Mr. Thompson is out at…

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was tired and extremely exhausted. Rosa got on the Montgomery Bus to get home. The bus was for white and black people every time a white person got on and there wasn’t enough room, they would move the black sign back. As the buss started to move the driver noticed a white man standing, the bus driver stopped the bus got out and moved the black sign back. When the driver moved the sign back, Rosa was in a seat in front of the sign.…

Unit Assessment The socioeconomic and political momentum African Americans achieved during the reconstruction era hit a solid wall of constitutionalized Jim Crow laws, laws legalized by the Plessey v Ferguson Supreme Court Case, which segregated black and white Americans. African Americans remained on the receiving end of racial discrimination and terrorism for almost a century. Although it had made no progress for almost a century, the push for African American rights gained a lot of…

Americans and their rights. For instance, she lead millions of people in a boycott against riding the buses. The Montgomery bus company lost thousands of dollars after months of the boycott. They finally brought an end to bus segregation, and soon the end of all segregation. Rosa also exhibited leadership by joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or NAACP and by being the secretary of the Montgomery NAACP for twelve years. According to NAACP.org “The mission of…

40,000 African Americans who participated in the boycott. They rented about 90 cars to drive people around to wherever they needed to be during the winter. They also had mass meetings on Mondays at 7:00 PM. The church which the meeting was located at was Holt Street Baptist Church. As i mentioned earlier…

have the respect and rights they merit. Also a very brave woman that in time because of her disobedience of not following the rules led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott a movement that is famous today and forever will be. Rosa Parks who at only 15 years old, had not only disobey the law, but spurn to give her seat up to a white men on the Montgomery city bus that day March…

segregated schools in Montgomery. When Rosa was 16 she dropped out of school to take care of her dying grandmother and chronically ill mother. In 1932 at the young age of 19 Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks a man 10 years older than her. Rosa worked as a seamstress while her husband worked as a barber. Both Rosa and Raymond were active members of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).…

city called Tuskegee, Alabama, United states. Mrs Parks got married at the age of 20 to a man named Raymond Parks. Rosa Parks fought for civil rights. A huge act she did was the Montgomery bus boycott where she was one of the people that lead it. She was also involved in a bus argument which led her to jail and also the boycott later. Early life/What motivated her: When Rosa Parks was younger she always felt bad about the way Black Americans were treated. She always wanted to be free and have…

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…