the bus story
On a cold December evening in 1955 Rosa parks quietly incited a revolution by just sitting down. she was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row the first row of the colored section in Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move to the back of the bus. three rides complied. The Montgomery bus boycott in which African American refused to ride city buses in Montgomery Alabama to protest segregated seating took place from December 5, 1955 to December 20,1956 and is regarded as the first large scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S on December 1,1955, four days before the boycott began Rosa parks an African American woman, refused to yield h seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. she was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of parks court hearing and lasted 381 days. The U.S supreme court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system and one of the leaders of the boycott, younger pagers to drop out to care for her ailing grandparents.
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