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    A white man enters the bus and looks for a seat‚ but the white section of 10 seats is packed. He then walks further back in the bus and stops by the colored section‚ waits for the first row of African-American passengers to stand up; that is how the system works. Three of them give up their seats when the bus driver demands them to‚ but the last passenger just moves to the window seat and stays put. “I don’t think I should have to stand up‚” she says‚ and later that day‚ she is in jail and receives

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    Consequences/importance of the Montgomery Bus Protest 1. The direct result was that in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal (Browder v Gayle). 2. After 13 months the bus companies gave in. This was REALLY important for the future because it showed to both Blacks and Whites in America that in racial discrimination cases - eventually - the Blacks would win. The battle was by no means finished‚ but after Montgomery the Whites knew they were going to lose in the end‚ and

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    Case : Yogyakarta Bus Terminal: The Private Provision of Municipal Infrastructure Questions: 1. Is the bus terminal project a success or failure? Cite the “success” or “failure” specifically from the case story In the short run the project is success but in the long run it is failure. The reason is as below:- 1. Short run success evaluated based on stakeholders benefit and motive analysis:- Benefit & Motivation (Stakeholders) Indicator: Success/Good Performance Political Context 1.Get

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    American citizen‚ Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat when the bus was filling up. She was allegedly arrested for violating bus segregation laws and behaving in disorderly conduct. 1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott April 23th 1956 The Montgomery bus company decides to implement a policy of desegregation after the U. S. Supreme Court dismisses the appeal of a federal appeals court ruling outlawing bus segregation in South Carolina. March 19th 1956 King is found guilty of

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    On Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1955 Mrs. Parks was on her way home from a hard day at work on a Montgomery bus. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of the bus and let the whites sit in the front and the middle. on that day‚ rosa parks were sitting in the middle. When another white person came on the bus she was asked to move. He asked her again and she still said no. Then she was forced off the bus then arrested.On the evening

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    Have you ever heard about the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Have you ever heard about Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr? If you have‚ you probably know these people as the faces of the bus boycott that took place in Montgomery‚ Alabama in 1956. If someone were to ask you what you know about this movement‚ you would probably tell them what you were taught in elementary school. You would say that she and Martin Luther King Jr. are responsible for the success of the boycott. This‚ however‚ is not necessarily

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    article‚ “Montgomery Bus Boycott‚” Rosa Parks stated‚ “I thought about Emmett Till‚ and I couldn’t go back to the back of the bus.” On December 1‚ 1955‚ three months after Till’s death‚ Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man‚ this lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Alford 73). Thousands of African Americans living in Montgomery refused to ride the segregated bus system. Many Africans Americans walked or found other alternative means of transportation‚ thus causing the bus system to suffer

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    By Riley Burt Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1‚ 1955 an African American woman named Rosa Parks‚ a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)‚ refused to stand to give up her seat to a white male as the Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ city bus was full and this was the expectation of African American people the buses were segregated and if the bus was full in the ’white’ section African Americans’ were expected to stand and let the white person

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    His teacher also was black. His teacher and he was sitting in the front because the bus was full of people. The driver told them to sit in the back. They refused then the driver cursed and threatened them‚ and only because his teacher was in tears‚ they moved to the back. He felt terrible ‚ but this gave him determination to fight prejudice. When Rosa Parks was sitting in a section on a bus just behind the sign stating “White Only.” then the driver asked her to move the seat

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a highly important event The Civil Rights Movement featuring several famous and latter important people including The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King jr and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. This was also an early victory for The Civil Rights Movement and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The event also gave The Civil Rights Movement legitimacy and showed that peaceful protests could yield results. All of the events of the boycott would later have repercussions

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