T. V. Civil Rights Case

The setting is a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The event happened in1955. The characters are Mr. Joe Singleton,, Rev. Scott, Miss Louise Bennett, Jacob & Junie ( fraternal twins, fourteen) and Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, a symbol of knitting the difficult with the beautiful; intertwining a private experience with a history of racism and injustice. As a seamstress, she is represented by these words: “fabric, thread, collars, hems, buttonholes; bias, pins, cut; pieced & sewn; stitch, pants, shirts, socks and shirts, darned; well-made, well-sewn clothes; pressed sleeve; a thimble ( a symbol if protection), hem, … pins, parted lips, stitch, clenched teeth”. The bus and the door are symbolic; both are referential to the segregation practices exercised everywhere. The driver “drives off”, “pulls off” and “puts off. The door is “open” to the white and colored riders; however, colored people, who are paid-in-full-customers, are denied equal access to the bus. Verbs such as: “get off”, “walk”, “reboard”, “push” and “repeat”

On December 1, 1955, I was on a Montgomery bus and all was calm. I then proceeded to sit by my friend Rosa Parks. We were just having a nice conversation when the driver told us we had to get up,stand, or get off of the bus. I got up and stood in the very back and looked and Rosa wasn’t with me. She was still sitting in her seat. A little later I heard some yelling and in the blink of an eye, Rosa was off of the bus and the police were arresting her. The last thing I ever heard from her was when the bus driver told her he was going to call the police, she said,

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. She was found guilty for disorderly conduct and fined fourteen dollars. The city law stated that all African Americans were to sit in separate rows on the buses. African Americans had to sit in the back rows of the bus because the front rows of the bus were reserved of the white passengers. Rosa was tired of all the horrible treatment her and her fellow African Americans were receiving everyday of their lives.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, one of the leaders of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] refused to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, despite being reprimanded by the driver (Schulke 166). Montgomery, Alabama was known for its terrible treatment of blacks. The buses in particular had been a source of tension between the city and black citizens for many years (Schulke, 167). As a result of refusing to give up her seat, Rosa Parks was arrested. Rosa Parks' popularity among the black community, proved to be the spark that ignited the non-violent Civil Rights Movement (Norrell 2).

On Thursday evening December 1, 1955, Rosa boards a Montgomery City Bus to go home after a long day working as a seamstress. She walks back to the section for blacks, and takes a seat. The law stated that they could sit there if no White people were standing. Rosa parks never liked segregation rules and has been fighting against them for more than ten years in the NAACP, but until then had never broke any of the unjust rules. As the bus stops at more places, more white people enter the bus, all the seats in the “White Only” section was filled and the bus driver orders Rosa’s row to move to the back of the bus, they all moved, accept Rosa. She was arrested and fined for violating a city regulation. This act of defiance began a movement that ended legal Segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom devoted people everywhere.

A growing amount of American people began to speak out about inequality and injustice during the 1950’s and the Rosa Parks bus incident is a perfect example. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year old African American woman who worked as a seamstress

Years before Rosa Parks, she was asked to give up her seat on a bus for a white man and asked to go into a “Jim Crow” car. She refused to move

This story takes place in the late 1940s in the South. The Race relations during this time were tumultuous at best. African Americans did not have the same freedoms and rights as white citizens. For example, if a white citizen had been convicted of the same thing their punishment would more likely be less harsh and less permanent. The African Americans are treated stricter as if they did something wrong and if they were not equals. And the whites are more superior than the African

After Lily rescues Rosaleen from jail they walk a long way and finally they have to find a place to stay for the night, Lily suggests they find motel to stay in. “She smiled at me then. ‘Lily, child, there ain’t gonna be any place that will take a colored woman. I don’t care if she’s the Virgin Mary, nobody’s letting her stay if she’s colored.’ ‘Well, what was the point of the Civil Rights Act?’

“There was a Catholic church uptown for whites; a Catholic church back of town for coloured. There was a white movie theatre uptown; a coloured movie theatre back of town. There were two elementary schools uptown, one Catholic, one public, for whites; and the same back of town school for coloured” (25). At the courthouse, the “toilet for coloured people [...] was down in the basement [...] [and] was always filthy” while “[t]he toilets inside were for whites only” (69). The setting of the rural south involving segregation relates to Gaines' theme of oppression faced by African-American individuals. They were separated from the rest of the dominant population, and were given second-class treatment in public.

The author starts the novel with Park’s defiance to concede her seat because it is an event capable of ensnaring most reader’s interest, is relatable, and helps establish an essential point of the novel. The event is interesting to readers because many are familiar with this historical event, which creates a premise that many readers could understand and relate to. The author then alters the reader’s perception of the event with information that ties in to the central theme of the novel. The view of the event is changed because the reader learns that Rosa Parks is an introvert. Many would expect Parks’ to be a bold and imposing woman, the author included, “I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a

In 1955, the law was that blacks were obligated to sit in the back of the bus and had to give up their seats to white passengers if need be. Rosa Parks, an African American woman in Montgomery, Alabama was arrested for not wanting to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Due to this particular action, she opened the way for African Americans to truly have the same rights as white people, actual equality.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama (Baggett, 2016). Alabama, amongst many other southern states, enforced segregation in public places. Rosa Parks boarded a bus after a long day of work at the local department store and paid the white bus driver her regular fare. The bus was full, as it normally was at this time of day, and Rosa took her seat at the front of the black section of the bus (Sanders, 2006, p. 3). Black passengers were advised to yield to white passengers if the front half of the white section was full. The bus driver began to drive and eventually made another stop at the next station. White passengers began to board the bus and took all the remaining white seats at the front of the bus; however, there was one man left standing. The bus driver asked Rosa and the other passengers beside her to vacate

Members of the NAACP thought her calm and peaceful persona would be perfect to stir action in white and black communities alike. Since, people would be surprised of the showing of resistance by such a calm woman. So, on December 1, 1955, after finishing up her daily work as a seamstress she was asked to give up her seat to a white person. Rosa refused to give up her seat and remained seated until the police of Montgomery arrived and arrested her. She was in jail for roughly a day, but this was enough to make the impression of injustice the NAACP was looking for.

December 1st 1955 Rosa Parks got arrested. Rosa Parks got arrested by sitting back where the white people sit.The bus driver had to pay $24 fine. Rosa grew up in the southern united states in Alabama. Rosa parks joined the colored people (NAACP).