Americans were only allowed to sit at the back of public transports (buses) and if the bus was full an African American had to give their seat to a White American. On December 1st‚ 1955‚ African American Rosa Parks was under arrest for refusing to give up her seat for a white American on the bus. Rosa Parks was found guilty and was fined $10; this incident caused a riot between African and White Americans and also the beginning of The Montgomery Bus Boycott on December 5th‚ 1955. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The course of the Montgomery Bus boycott was made up of various significant events. It all began with Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus on the afternoon of December 1st 1955. She was taken to jail‚ fingerprinted and was allowed to use the phone. This is when Rosa Parks made contact with the Black civil rights leaders and when they began to take action on there plan to boycott Montgomery busses. This was the beginning of the protest against segregation. The protest began
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It started on Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1995 when a forty-eight year old women‚ Rosa Parks‚ refused to give up her seat after an exhausting day at work. Rosa Parks is arrested and booked for violating the Montgomery City Code. On the evening Rosa Park was arrested‚ local civil rights leaders‚ including E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King‚ was planning a citywide boycott. Dr. King is being elected as the leader of the
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year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to go home from a tiring day at work. She sat on the ‘colored’ seats but as several other white passengers boarded‚ the driver asked them to give up their seats. The other African-Americans reluctantly gave up their seats but Rosa Parks refused and stayed seated. She was arrested for violating the Montgomery City Code and in her trial a week later‚ she was found guilty‚ fined $10 and assessed $4 court fee. One the same night as Rosa Parks was arrested
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The Civil Rights Movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968‚ was one of the most important times in American history. With activities‚ protest marches and boycotts‚ organizations challenged segregation and discrimination. The Movement happened because not all Americans were being treated in the same way. In general white Americans were treated better than any other American people‚ especially African-American people. The Civil Rights Movement made the country a more fair and humane society
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work in many jobs. Usually a job that paid well for them was working for someone else. Like Rosa Parks‚ she was discriminated for her color and was compelled by the whites to sit in the back of the public bus. The whites believed it was more accurate for them to sit ahead of the blacks‚ and the blacks to sit behind the whites. Until one day everything changed. A brave‚ humble woman named Rosa Parks had the courage to confront all the whites and sit ahead of the whites. Although the whites told
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Rosa parks was arrested in the 50s for sitting in a seat where she was not allowed to sit. The law was meant to treat people differently based upon the color of their skin. She felt that this was an unjust law and took a stand against it by breaking the law. Famous people like m.l.k‚ gandhi‚ and thoreau went against the law because they felt it was wrong and only way to fix that was to fix them self by breaking the law. Civil dis happens when people stand up for unjust laws without violent and demands
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happening during the Civil Rights Movement. Some were even assassinated for standing up for what they believed in. 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
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" - Rosa Parks (after being jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a bus). In this quote‚ Rosa Parks‚ a civil rights activist who initiated the Montgomery bus boycott against segregated buses‚ explained how inequality infringed upon those who resided in the lower portion of the racial hierarchy. She noticed that white people dehumanized black people and belittled them by forcing black people to sit in a designated part of the bus. The black community resented this treatment‚ and when Rosa Parks
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in our society. Civil disobedience impacts society in a positive manner that does not hinder nor deteriorate the good name of the just nation that is home‚ but moreover poses as an influence for what is better accepted by humans as lawful. Rosa Parks‚ a prominent female figure noted for her courageousness in standing up for African Americans in the fight to end racial segregation‚ brought upon civil disobedience through her brave
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