Rosa Parks: Montgomery Bus Boycott
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 Rosa Parks a 42-year-old African-American  seamstress living in Montgomery, Alabama was happily married to Raymond Parks. Mrs. Parks had just finished a hard days work and was waiting for the bus. When the bus finally arrived she boarded the bus and sat down on the African-American side of the bus. But at another bus stop a few white men boarded the bus and sat down but one man was left standing. The bus driver told the first row of African-Americans (including Rosa Parks) to stand up and let this man sit but Mrs. Parks refused to stand up. Since she refused to stand up  the bus driver started demanding her to get up but when that failed to work he started to threaten her. The bus driver said "You better get up or i'll get the police!" But then Mrs. Parks said "Go right ahead". The bus driver got the police and had Mrs. Parks removed from the bus and arrested for violating a city ordinance. Thanks to Dr. E.D Nixon, Mrs. Parks was able to get out of jail because Dr. E.D Nixon posted her bail. After getting out of jail the entire African-American community of Montgomery, Alabama got together and thought of a plan. After many hours of brainstorming they finally came up with a plan to stop segregation. Their plan was to boycott all city buses and protest on the streets. But first of all they had to get everyone in the African-American community to walk to work or car pool with the ones that have cars. They also got the taxi cab drivers to drive as many people as they could to work or to were ever they needed to go when ever they could. So after 385 days of protesting there hard work and dedication finally paid off and they got the MIA to rule segregation on buses illegal.