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    Rosa Parks is considered the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She was born on February 4‚ 1913 in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. Parks was an African-American civil rights activist. She took part in the Montgomery bus boycott a mass protest against the Montgomery bus system in Alabama. In 1956‚ the Supreme Court declared that the segregation in buses were unconstitutional. The event related to Rosa Parks took place on December 1st‚ 1955‚ when she refused to give

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    On the Montgomery city buses‚ the front ten seats were reserved for whites only‚ when a white man walks in and the “white only” seats are filled‚ the driver asked Parks and three other African-American ladies to move for this man. When she was the only one noncompliant‚ the police were called and Parks was arrested for violating chapter six section ten and eleven of the Montgomery City code (The Arrest of Rosa Parks). Sections ten states that

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effort by Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ for black people to sit in the seats‚ without having to give them to a white person. Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 382 days from December 1‚ 1955 to December 20‚ 1956. Most people‚ out of the 50‚000 African Americans living in Montgomery‚ ride the buses there. When Rosa Parks Refused to give up her seat‚ she got arrested. She was arrested on the same day the Montgomery Bus Boycott started. On August 28

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    testifies against the white men who murdered his young nephew Emmett Till. The men who murdered till was found not guilty because he was beaten so bad they could not prove it was Emmett. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery‚ Alabama. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. emerged as the movement’s most eloquent leader. White citizens’ council – targeted black or white who supported desegregation. Segregation kept the whites going. The black leaders decided that the boycott

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    edited the theory with Barbara M. Montgomery. It is an interpersonal communication theory about close personal ties and relationships that highlights the tensions‚ struggles‚ and interaction between opposing tendencies (Baxter and Montgomery‚ 1998). Baxter and Montgomery elaborated on Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea that life is an open monologue and that individuals experience discourse between opposing desires and needs within relational communications (Baxter and Montgomery‚ 1998). According to Baxter (1998)

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    The writer‚ Lucy Montgomery‚ has an impressive sense of humor and her way with words is exceptionally awesome; after reading about Montgomery’s life I think that Anne represented her in fantasy world‚ the reason why I think that is because she has a lot of similarities with Anne I mean like they both were orphan and like Anne‚ Montgomery was particular about the spelling of name‚ and both of them loved green gables (which is Prince Edward Island in real life.) In the book the author has used a third

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    Nowhere does it say that Rosa Parks can not sit on that bus. The Montgomery Code required all public transportation was segregated (Kishel‚ 2006). The city claimed that the bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code (Kishel‚ 2006). While driving the bus‚ drivers were required to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and black passengers by assigning seats. This was completed

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    Civil Rights. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was a black African American woman who was a civil rights activist. Rosa Parks was the “first lady of civil rights” she made a name for herself in history on the first of December 1955 while riding on the Montgomery Alabama bus. Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger who had no where to sit as the bus as it was full. Even though Rosa was sitting in the right colour section. On this day when Rosa refused to obey the Jim Crow Laws of segregation

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    started standing up for themselves by challenging the segregation system. The Montgomery bus boycott was the first step; sparked by the arrest

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    Whether Montgomery’s talks and trip were successful? One way to evaluate the success was to go back to his remarks on May 29‚ at Hickam AFB. In his speech‚ he stressed that his trip would enable 5 families to reunite their long-lost loved ones and improve the U.S.-DPRK relationship. In a short term‚ at least immediately after the trip‚ he would feel disappointment as neither of his expectation was materialized. However‚ when we consider the dynamics of the two countries’ contact in the whole 1990s

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