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Rosa Parks - Research Paper

Rosa Parks

In Montgomery, Alabama 1955, the city had strict rules regarding interactions between whites and Negroes. City parks had separate water fountains and restrooms, and on the city buses, whites sat in the front while Negroes sat in the back. A white line on the floor of the bus indicated the point of separation. However, if the white section was full and a white person wanted to sit down, Negroes were required to give up seats in the front rows of the Negro section so the white person could sit. In effect, the white line was moveable to make sure that all whites got seats and Negroes got whatever was left over.

On December 1 of that year, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American, got ...

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(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and the African-American community rallied around her. A still-unknown minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., came to Montgomery and helped organize a bus boycott. The bus company depended on its Negro riders. People met in churches and organized car pools. People agreed to walk, sometimes for miles, rather than ride the buses.

The Negro boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama buses lasted for over a year, but in the end they won, and African-Americans won the right to keep their seats on the bus.

In the process, King began teaching activists the concepts of peaceful resistance he had learned from Mahatma Gandhi, who helped lead India to independence from Great Britain. The boycott was hard on African-Americans because carpool drivers were arrested for â€śpicking up hitchhikers,â€ť and people waiting on street corners for their rides were arrested for loitering. However, they did not give up, and thus ...

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Added: 4/17/2016 04:38:09 AM
Category: African Studies
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