significant events. I will describe and evaluate four such events: Montgomery bus boycott 1955‚ little rock Arkansas 1951‚ Greensboro North Carolina sits INS 1960‚ Selma to Montgomery march 1963 Rosa parks was on the bus on her way home from a day at work as a seamstress at a department store ‚she sat in the fifth row which was the first row for the black people All the buses were segregated and when the white section was full the bus driver needed Rosa’s seat for a white person so he told her
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He also became a pastor that same year for Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. That’s how he started big as someone in the church “community”. In March 1955‚ Claudette Colvin‚ a black fifteen-year-old pregnant schoolgirl in Montgomery‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man to stand up to the Jim Crow Laws which were local regulations in the south that enforced racial segregation.. King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that would look for the case
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Many people took part in marches‚ bus boycotts to protest segregation. For example people took part in the bus boycotts because Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus Montgomery‚ Alabama. People got angry and Jo Ann Robinson was one of them‚ “she stayed up all night making hand-written flyers to stay off the bus” (pg 29 Scholastic) until they gave up segregation on buses. About ¾ of colored population did not ride the bus in Montgomery. In addition
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In Memoriam: Rosa Parks is an article on the Mother of the civils’ right movement‚ Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Rosa Parks is the women that refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. She is the reason the bus boycott started and is a strong and inspirational women in black history. She admitted that she did get up out of her seat because she was tired. Not psychically tired but tired of giving in to white people. She was tired of being single out base
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McCauley (Parks) was born in Tuskegee‚ Alabama ‚ in 1913 february 4th. Rosa moved with her parents to her grandparents house in Pine Level. Rosa spent most of her childhood there. Her mother was a teacher‚ and her family adored education Rosa moves to Montgomery‚ Alabama when she was around 11years old and eventually attended High School there. She left school at 16 early in 11th grade to care for her sickly grandmother and soon after that her severely sick mom. In 1932 when she was 19 she married Raymond
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out in violence. Meanwhile‚ in 1955 in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white man in December 1955 and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ a successful protest that took over a year and ended with the Supreme-Court-ordered desegregation of Montgomery buses. The boycott also brought to fame a young pastor named Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ who led the protest. The attempts at school desegregation and the bus boycott began a flood of protest demonstrations
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law was a result of the Browder vs. Gayle case that revolved around Aurelia Browder who refused to give up her seat to a white person‚ this stemmed from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the previous year. She was backed up by the NACCP and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court who ruled in her favour and thus making segregation on all bus services illegal. Peaceful protest also helped to gain the support of white people in power and ordinary white people‚ therefore putting more pressure on the
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disobedience. A perfect advancement of him would be the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. In March 1955‚ a fifteen-year-old school girl in Montgomery‚ Claudette Colvin‚ refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in compliance with Jim Crow laws. After hearing of this thing‚ King soon got involved in it‚ looked into the case and began to note a protest. The Montgomery Bus Boycott urged and planned by Nixon and led by King‚ soon followed. The boycott lasted for 385 days‚ and the situation became so tense
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him as a wonderful man that taught peace‚ nonviolence and freedom through the Montgomery Bus Boycott and giving the ever so famous “I Have A Dream” speech. These actions have created a catalyst for change out of an ordinary man‚ Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goals in Birmingham‚ Alabama was to end racial segregation‚ little did he know it would be broadcasted out to the whole country. The bus boycott was shown around the whole United States‚ demonstrated the potential for nonviolent
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in recent times. An embodiment of taking a stand would no other person I choose rather than Rosa Parks. Rosa Park made headlines news with to refuse her giving up her seat to a white man on Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ city bus in 1955. At the age of 42 she took a seat on the bus from the Montgomery Fair department store where she work as a seamstress. The fact she stood down she actually Rose up. Where though she said “No” to the man‚ she in fact said “Yes”. Rosa Park with her actions stood volumes
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