Alabama (1956)
I'm doing my report on events that accured in Alabama in 1956 directly referring to civil rights and the struggles that Black-Americans faced in 1956. The two events that I'm going to concentrate on are the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the integration of students at the University of Alabama. On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, a African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an "established rule" in the American south (at that time) that African-Americans riders had to sit at the back of the bus. African-American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white bus rider if it was needed. When asked to move to let a white bus rider be seated Mrs. Parks refused. She did not argue and she did not move. The police were called and Mrs. Parks was arrested. Mrs. Parkd was not the first African-American to be arrested for this "crime." But she was the first to be arrested who was well know in the Montgomery African-American community. She was once the secretary to the president of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
They named their organization the Montgomery Improvement Association and elected Dr. One often-used method was to try to divide the black community. It eventually took the United States Supreme Court to end the boycott. " The following Sunday, he addressed a group of Baptist students and asked a disturbing question - "how can we profess to be Christians and really hate our brothers?" A few days later, the pastor of the congregation asked Dees to step down from the position of superintendent of the Sunday School class for married couples. This action by the University caused many problems between the NCAAP and the state of Alabama. It all started with a young women named Autherine Lucy. But that still wasn't good enough for the people. To prevent this from happening, some MIA officials went bar-hopping to spread the word that the stories were a hoax, that the boycott was still on. Although Dees in 56 did not consider himself a desegregationist, the incident shocked him. In 1981, he began a battle against hate groups that would make him the target of death threats and arson. Their unselfish acts didn't go unrewarded.
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