When you read the title what comes to mind? Your probably wondering what the prize is and how can you get. Well this time it’s going to be a little different because in these 5 paragraphs we will be discussing the civil rights movement. The Eyes on the Prize saying came from a folk song “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize”, in which was the African American theme song in ending the racial crossroads. During this time there were many cases that happened in the hard times, in the south. But not many of the cases ended well as in crucial punishment and lastly death.

In fact one case involved a young 14 year old boy Emmett Till. He had come from up north in Chicago down to the Delta region of Mississippi, where he was visiting relatives in …show more content…
After a long day of work at a Montgomery department store where she was a seamstress, Rosa was waiting on the bus. December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers. Though the city's bus ordinance did give drivers the authority to assign seats, it didn't specifically give them the authority to demand a passenger to give up a seat to anyone (regardless of color). However, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the custom of requiring black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers, when no other seats were available. If the black passenger protested, the bus driver had the authority to refuse service and could call the police to have them removed. While the bus continued on its route it began to get filled with white passengers and they began to stand in the aisle. The bus driver stopped the bus and asked could the 4 blacks move to let the white passengers sit, well the 3 blacks did as told except for Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat because she didn’t feel as if she needed too. Rosa Parks was later arrested for violating chapter 6 of section 11, where she later confessed that the reason why she didn’t get up is because she was tired of giving in, later that night she was released on …show more content…
Nixon, head of the local chapter of the NAACP, began forming plans to organize a boycott of Montgomery's city buses. Ads were placed in local papers, and handbills were printed and distributed in black neighborhoods. Members of the African-American community were asked to stay off city buses on Monday, December 5, 1955—the day of Rosa's trial—in protest of her arrest. People were encouraged to stay home from work or school, take a cab or walk to work. With most of the African-American community not riding the bus, organizers believed a longer boycott might be successful. On the morning of December 5, a group of leaders from the African-American community gathered at the Mt. Zion Church in Montgomery to discuss strategies, and determined that their boycott effort required a new organization and strong leadership. They formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, electing Montgomery newcomer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The MIA believed that Rosa Parks’ case provided an excellent opportunity to take further action to create real change. On October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was marked by several memorial services, among them lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 50,000 people viewed her