Getting off the Bus: The Montgomery Bus Boycott After the Civil War, the concept of "separate but equal" was the principle that guided relations between whites and blacks. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, which outlawed discrimination against blacks in public facilities. But, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the law only applied to the federal government. Many states, particularly in the South, took advantage of this ruling and denied African Americans of their rights as citizens. Prejudice
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as second class citizens and where seen as ‘separate but not equal’. However there were events that changed these views such as the Brown Vs Topeka Board of education, The Little rock high school case, the James Meredith Case and also the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 that sprung into action after one several people began to stand up to the unequal laws that had been set. One event that
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in a town just outside of Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa was homeschooled as a child and later on enrolled in an all girls school. When she was in her first year of highschool, she had to drop out in order to take care of her grandmother who was very ill. Soon after she rejoined, her mother had gotten sick and she had to drop out again. Rosa grew up at a time where segregation was enforced in almost every aspect of life. For example, only whites were allowed to take the bus as a form of transportation
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diploma (History). Rosa Parks chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest equal rights for blacks that whites have. In 1900, Montgomery passed a city ordinance pertaining to the purpose of segregating passengers by race. The drivers were allowed to assign seats to certain people pertaining to their race. If the bus was crowded or if it was a standing bus no passengers would have to give
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Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a farm with her parental grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. They all were members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a century-old independent black religious group founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the early
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public city bus and the driver then pulled the bus over and proceeded to holler at her so she screamed because she was alarmed
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started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. At that time the law in Montgomery was that black people had to give a seat up to white people if there wasn’t enough seats and that black people had to sit in the back of the bus. A white person needed a seat so the bus driver told the four black people to go to the back of the bus. 3 of them went but Rosa Parks did not. She got fined 10 dollars and decided to do something about it. She and Martin Luther King Jr. started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott was where
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African Americans and Their Fight for Equality Tiffany Brown HIS 204 July 2, 2012 1 - 1 - African Americans and Their Fight for Equality I have chosen to write about how African-American worked to end segregation, discrimination and isolation. There has been much work through the years to end segregation, discrimination and isolation and some things that have tried to be done without the use of violence. Today African-Americans still have to deal with others and their perceptions on
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the 1956 bus boycott which has altered American History for the better. Miriam Thompson and Odessa Cotter are two significant women in this film. Briefly, Miriam is white and having a white family, Odessa is the Thompson families black housekeeper. The movie starts up with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This relates to what we learned in class in the aspect that all African Americans boycotted use of the bus. Rosa Parks initiated the bus boycott, suggesting that if all use of the public bus was diminished
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The First Amendment to the Constitution gives people the right to petition on issues they disagree with. Therefore, it is completely legal and considered an inalienable right to peacefully protest. Peaceful protests can positively affect society in the fact that they can bring attention to an issue, but negatively impact society in the fact that they fail to bring about any actual change immediately. During Andrew Jackson's presidency, Native Americans were scattered all across the United States
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