Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, seamstress Mrs. Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat, she was found guilty of the crime of disorderly conduct with a fine of fourteen dollars. She was arrested for violating a city law that required all blacks to sit in separate rows on the buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the row when a white person wished to sit in her row. Blacks had to sit in the back and the front rows were for whites only. Rosa Parks was physically tired, but no more than you or I after a long day's work. In fact, under other circumstances, she would have probably given up her seat willingly to a child or elderly person. But this time Parks was tired of the treatment she and other African Americans received every day of their lives, with the racism, segregation, and laws of the ti
The car-pool drivers were arrested for picking up "hitchhikers". Blacks walked, rode bicycles, drove or got a ride around the city rather than take the bus. King and the other African-American community leaders held another meeting to organize future action. They named their organization the Montgomery Improvement Association and elected Dr. He and other African-American community leaders felt a protest of some kind was needed. Then on November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the black boycotters, and after that blacks took any seat they wanted on buses. After twelve months of 50,000 blacks boycotting Montgomery's bus service, a federal court ordered the desegregation of the cities buses. King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury.
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