Bus boycott

meet and talk to a person from history, I would like to meet her. According to Alabama’s law at that time, the bus was divided into three parts. The first part was marked “Whites Only” which was only for the White American. The second part can be for both black people and white people. As long as there were no white people were standing, the black could sit there. The last part of the bus was the seats for black

Martin Luther King once said, "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Civil disobedience is a ritualistic violation of the law; it does not go against laws or the government as a whole. We, as Americans, have a constitutional right to peaceful protesting when it comes to things that we think are unjust. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it allows an opportunity for change in unjust laws, sets a positive example for the future, and unifies people

back of the bus but also relinquish their seats to any white men or women in the event the bus was full. Rosa Parks was taking public transportation when she was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger and refused. Later that day she was arrested on Civil Disobedience charges, but her actions did not go unnoticed. Her brave and bold move sparked a boycott only three days later of the Montgomery bus system that would last 382 days. Local churches helped those who chose to boycott by providing

arrested for not giving a white bus rider her seat. Mrs. Parks was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime", but she was well known in the Montgomery African-American community. Dr. King and the other African-American community leaders felt a protest was needed. The African-American residents of the city were asked to boycott the bus company by walking and driving instead. The United States Supreme Court would end the boycott, which lasted 381 days, by

Boston College. They married of June 1953 and had four children. He became a pastor Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin had many great accomplishments. One of his great accomplishments is when Martin lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Martin and a group of men were discussing how they could get people to get together to help stand for what is

the bus everyday. Mrs. Parks says she sat in the section made for African Americans. James Blake, Rosa’s bus driver, commanded Parks to give up her seat to a white man. She refused to get up for the man. Parks said “ I wasn’t tired, just tired of giving in.“ By law she didn’t have to, so Rosa didn’t. Parks was arrested for violating the laws of segregation and the “Jim Crow laws“. She was also

I saw her on the bus every day. Though not old, she seemed tired. I thought of all the things she must have done that day. Knowing she needed the seat more than I did, I sat still, hoping somebody else would. During 1955, no black men tried to stand against us. As a white citizen, it was normal to see black people being mistreated. Not all white people hated or disliked the black people, but none took any action. I no longer wanted to partake in such racism. When I heard the news about Rosa Parks

brought together the country to fight for one cause. It was December 1st, 1955 and a NAACP Secretary named Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat to a white passenger on the bus, she refused to and got arrested for it. Dr. King was the spokesman and leader for the bus boycott that was a boycott of the buses in Montgomery after the Rosa Parks incident. As a result the busses were unsegregated which upset Southerners so much that they bombed Dr. King’s home, luckily he wasn’t there and

The Civil Rights Movement had a lot going on between 1954 and 1964. While there were some successful aspects of the movement, there were some failures as well. The mixture of successes and failures led to the extension of the movement and eventually a more equal American society. Success was a big part of the Civil Rights Movement. Starting with the year 1954, there were some major victories in favor of African Americans. In 1954, the landmark trial Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

On December 1, 1995, 42-year-old Rosa Parks had got on and sat in the middle of a bus, right behind the first ten seats that were reserved for whites, but on that same fated day, a white male had boarded the same bus as her, and Parks, along with other black people, had been asked to move back, but instead of moving back, she just stayed in the seat that she was in and quietly refused to give up her