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    The Long Walk Home is a 1990 film based on Montgomery Bus Boycott that took place during 1955 and 1956. Director Richard Pearce introduces the audience to a time period where a revolution in America was taking place to destroy the segregation between Blacks and Whites (IMDb 1990). This film portrays two inspirational women: Odessa Cotter and Miriam Thompson. Both are on the opposite ends of the social chain but are able to connect through their moral beliefs on what is wrong and right during a…

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was not as instantaneous as you may think. There were more people arrested, violent approach of the white people to stop the boycott, and much more. The Montgomery Bus Boycott didn’t start off with just Rosa Parks getting arrested, there were at least a dozen more before her, in Montgomery alone. Rosa Parks was not really the reason why the boycott was started. They chose Rosa, over the two arrested a week before her, becauseshe was a better candidate then they were.…

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    Rights law which banned all discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, or national origin. This speech eventually lead to a march that had white people in it to. This was a step in equal rights for everyone. Montgomery bus boycott. The Montgomery bus boycott was an important…

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    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,…

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott started in December 1955. This brought much attention to Miss Rosa Parks. Very intriguingly, all African American citizens refused to ride the bus, due to Parks being arrested for refusing to give up her seat. This was a big deal. It upset many blacks and they refused to ride the bus any longer. Since black Americans refused to ride the bus, it caused serious financial problems for the bus company. They had to desegregate the buses. The Montgomery bus company faced…

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    King organize the montgomery bus boycott? So It all started on the month of december year 1995 in montgomery Alabama when Rosa parks was tired of all the revelution between the colored skinned and the white’s. She had just came from work and entered the bus, she sat in around the fifth row of where the colored skin were allowed to sit. Usually when the bus was full the colored skin people are supposed to give up their seat to any white person. Well the bus driver saw that there…

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    Rosa Parks Disobedience

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    happens everywhere every day, for reasons false and valid. Rosa Parks disobeyed the law by not giving up her seat to the white person, she believed in equality. Her disobedience is what caused people with color to be able to sit in the front of the bus regardless of race. “It is better to live for one day as a lion than for a thousand years as a sheep.” - Tibetan Proverb Disobedience is the lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression. Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee,…

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    on the bus is when Mrs. Robinson knew she had to make a difference. That’s when the Montgomery Bus Boycott took place on the bus company. African Americans were tired of the segregation as well as the discrimination and violence caused by everything. Jo Ann Gibson Robison made a difference in African American lives. Taking time to show the public the true problem that is going on and making a difference is what a heroic hero Mrs. Robinson is proven to be. In the book The Montgomery Bus…

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    Tobias MacIvey: Tobias MacIvey moved to Punta Rassa, Florida, from Georgia after the Civil War. He serves as the leader in this novel. He continues to raise his family down in Florida. His family goes through a rough patch and struggles, but then they become extremely successful from growing orange groves to sell and herding cattle. Tobias has an understanding and loving heart that goes out to people in need of work. He treats his fellow workers like family. He becomes weak and dies from malaria…

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    Bizarre Destinations Mary Flannery O’Connor known as Flannery O’Connor was born a Roman Catholic in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. O’Connor parents are Regina Cline and Edward F. O’Connor. She lived there until the family moved to Milledgeville, Georgia (Werlock). O’Connor lost her father to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at the age of fifteen (Gordan). She achieves the master program in creative writing. She is an influential American Poet and essayist in history. O’Connor insists that her…

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