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For countless years of her life, she dreamed of a world where people could drink out of the same water fountain, girls and boys could attend the same school, and whites and blacks could ride on a bus without being kicked off. Considering that Margaret Wade-Lewis’s article “I Remember Rosa Parks: The Impact of Segregation states “in the days of segregation, our lives were totally ‘us and them,’” it makes it clear that African Americans were only…

determination made her an admirable leader. When she was forty two years old she took her seat on the bus like any other person but she did not realize that day she would change the future for African Americans forever. In an interview she states “ I felt I had a right to be treated as any other passenger.” After she took her seat towards the back, many white people entered the bus, and Rosa was asked by the bus driver to stand so that the men could have her seat. Rosa was determined to…

to achieve social change and end segregation. There were many instances of black protests during the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first, and the one in which Martin Luther King, Jr became a prominent figure in black history, was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This was triggered after the arrest of Rosa Parks, a…

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Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her denial to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus began a city-wide boycott. The city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law of segregation on public buses. Rosa Parks received many awards during her lifetime. Rosa’s childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism…

The bus was getting full and the black male sitting with her gave up his seat to a white man. Another stop a white man stepped on to the bus and told Rosa to get out her seat, but Rosa refused and sat there. The bus driver called the police and Rosa Parks was arrested. Rosa Parks was bailed out of jail on the same day by her husband Raymond Parks. As though…

weren't allowed to sit in the front of the bus. They could sit only in the middle or the back. And bus drivers could make black passengers move so that white people could sit down. It was unfair, but it was the law” (Source C). But one day Rosa Parks had enough, and because of this action she became a brave, inspiring, and strong person. “Rosa Parks was best known for her act of civil disobedience in December of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery,…

restaurants. Blacks could not escape this type of “separate but equal” treatment only in their own household. Initially, the requests that came with the Montgomery Bus Boycott as listed: hiring black drivers, first-come, first-seated policy, and keep the segregation (Montgomery). However, Alabama refused to make these small changes to bus policies causing the industry to struggle with about seventy-five percent of riders boycotting to take that kind of transportation (Montgomery). This caused…

and shaken by the news (Doc. 2). One of the most powerful boycotts was held in response to this action, the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. The boycott was a great success. Black community members stopped riding the buses and started walking and cycling everywhere. The income of the city had been greatly affected. The boycott went on for over 380 days. In the end, the Alabama bus segregation laws were seen as unconstitutional and the Supreme Court ruled in favor of…

became a pastor like his father (Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography). He was chosen as the official spokesman for the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. The Montgomery bus boycott was where African Americans refused to ride busses and they walked every where they need to go (About Dr. King). On December 21, 1956 the supreme court got rid of the bus segregation laws which ended the boycott which lasted 382 days (Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography). Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president…