Rosa Parks was a famous African American who changed history. She stood up for racial segregation. Rosa Parks was a woman that refused to give up her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus.
During her childhood, she was brought with early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. Rosa Parks was taught to read by her mother. When she attended a segregated, one-room school in Alabama, African-Americans were to walk throughout the schoolhouse. The white people had provided bus transportation as well as a new school for white students. Later, in the 11th grade she dropped out of highschool to take care of her grandmother and mother at her original hometown in Pine Level. When she turned 19, she got married to Raymond Parks. In 1933, Rosa earned her high school degree because of her husband. She then became actively involved with the NAACP.
Her arrest, on December 1, 1955, after Rosa parks had got off work, she took the bus home to get home. She took a seat in the first several rows for “colored” passengers. The Montgomery City Code required that all public transportation be segregated and that the bus drivers had the “powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions.” of the code.
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The drivers were required to provide separate seats but equal accommodations for black and white people for assigning seats. The drivers put the white people in the front of the bus and black people in the back of the bus. The African-Americans (black) had to pay a fine, while white people didn’t. As the bus ride continued, a line of white people started standing in the aisle. The driver had stopped the bus and moved the sign separating the two sections back one row, and asking four black people to give up there seats because of the white people.
If the African-Americans refused to give up their seats, the driver had the authority to refuse service and call the police to have them removed. Some of the passengers complied with the driver, but Rosa Parks had refused and remained seated. The driver had then called the police and had her arrested. Rosa Parks refused because she got tired of giving in to the white people.
Boycotting, on that same day when Rosa Parks got arrested, E.D. Nixon began forming plans to organize a boycott of Montgomery’s city buses. Members of the African-American community were asked to stay off the city buses. People were encouraged to stay home from work or school, take a cab or walk to work. While none of the African-American communities not riding the buses, organizers believed a longer boycott might be successful.
On December 5, a group of leaders from the African-American community gathered at a church to discuss strategies, and determined that their boycott effort required a new organization and strong leadership. They then formed a Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), selecting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
