Many people wouldn't know the living truth of the bus boycott movement if they don't take a look between the lines of finding out the real connotation. Rosa Parks was not only symbolized as a colored person but she was a woman as well, making this case problematic. As stated in the first segment of the story “Mrs. Parks was sitting in the first row of the seats behind the section marked Whites only (The Evolution of America, pg.307).” Then when asked to move she refused, and …show more content…
“City authorities were getting ready to break up the car-pools (The Evolution of America, pg.317).” They wanted to find anything with a passion to stop the M.IA’s boycott. So Durr talked to Fray Gray about petitioning for a federal court injunction where he meets with Judge Richard T. Rives judge of the Circuit Court for Alabama, Judge Frank Johnson, and Judge Seyborune Lynn of Birmingham. Within a few weeks Judges “Johnson and Rives outvoted their colleague and ruled in favor of Gray’s petition. The federal question was raised at last. For the city of Montgomery appealed the ruling…and the state of Alabama joined the appeal; the matter now went to the Supreme Court’s docket (The Evolution of America,