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    an article titled “Jerome Bus Driver Fired after Incident in Facebook Video”. I found this article on the KTVB website. It was written by author Dean Johnson and published at 10:13 PM on September 3rd, 2016. The article describes the reasoning for the recent firing of Mary Black, a Northside Bus Company bus driver in Jerome, Idaho. The issue that this article describes would be most closely related to the subject of culture. On Saturday, September 3rd, the Northside Bus Company in Jerome, ID confirmed

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 was triggered when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st, 1955. The event saw that around 95% of Montgomery’s black citizens refused to ride the bus, lasting 381 days. This was an extremely important event as this is identified as the beginning of the American Black Civil Rights movement. I will be discussing the causes of this event - the Jim Crow laws, Rosas refusal to move, and the support

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott There are many events in history that helped to shape and lay the foundation for how people live their lives toady. Many of these historical events came out of sacrifice and unselfishness. Many of these movements involve the prohibition of basic human rights and often times result in loss of lives. “The Montgomery Bus Boycott” is one event that helped to fashion the foundation for acceptance and diversity in the United States of America. According to an article on “History

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    Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed? Well for one they would pay the same amount as white folk but had to sit in the back of the bus. The bus boycott originally started in june !953 African Americans in baton rouge Louisiana boycott segregated city busses. They figured out that if the blacks didn’t ride the bus they would go out of business so they did just that. They stood up against the whites and protested. A man known as Martin Luther King jr. helped the blacks in so many ways. He

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    Did you know that the Montgomery Bus Boycott is After Rosa Park's arrest civil rights organizations began handing out flyers calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system starting on December 5th (1955) the day Parks was to appear in municipal court. Before I can talk about the Montgomery Bus Boycott I have to tell you what it is; the Montgomery Bus Boycott is when African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5

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    Did you know that Rosa Parks actually wasn’t the only person to remain seated on a segregated bus when she was told to move? Claudette Colvin and Ruth Hamilton also refused to move. They were arrested together on March 2, 1955 Rosa was famously arrested for her actions on December 1, 1955. Mrs. Parks was used as the face of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Louise Parks was a civil rights activist and the leader of a major part of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on

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    story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is often told as a simple, happy tale of the "little people" triumphing over the seemingly insurmountable forces of evil. The truth is a little less romantic and a little more complex” (Cozzens). In all reality, it was more so a living disaster that ending in tremendous joy to those involved. On December 1st, 1955 all hell broke loose between the blacks and the whites, as for the Montgomery Bus Boycott had officially began. As I got on the bus heading home from my

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    the separation of blacks and whites. For instance, blacks were required to sit in the back of the bus, and white people sat in the front of the bus. In December of 1955, Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus and refused to give up her seat to a white male. She was later arrested and put in jail. This caused the black people of Montgomery to initiate a boycott, the refusal to use the services of the bus company. They did this in order to gain

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott began with the public arrest of an African American woman and civil rights activist named Rosa Parks. As stated in Document A,”Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat down in the closest seat. It was one of the first rows of the section where blacks were not supposed to sit… The bus driver told Rosa Parks that she would have to give up her seat to a white person. She refused and was arrested.” Rosa’s arrest sparked a number of radical events that fought against racial inequality

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    rights activist who had a big impact on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Claudette Colvin was born on September 5th 1939, in Montgomery Alabama. “Claudette Colvin was an A student at all-black Booker T. Washington High” (15 Freedman). She was a 15 year old spunky girl who was upset about segregation. She did what Rosa Parks did, but nine months earlier, and it did not spark as much controversy. Claudette Colvin felt like she sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to get out of her seat. She refused

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