Montgomery Freedman Freedom Wakeer

The story I read was Freedom Wakers The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The author of this story is Russel Freedman. This story is non-fiction. The main idea of this story is about how prejudice white people were to African Americans, especially on the bus. In the next few paragraphs I will explain how African Americans were treated unfairly on the bus and what they did to try to stop it. This story took place in Montgomery, Alabama. It all started in the year of 1949 with a girl named Jo Ann Robinson, who just wanted to visit her family in Cleveland, Ohio for the holidays. It all ended on a walk to freedom held by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963. The situations these walkers face are primarily from the segregated bus system.
Before she knew it the bus had jolted to a stop and the bus driver started yelling at her to get up from her seat and go to the back of the bus. Robinson jumped out of her seat and ran off the bus in tears. Eventually she made it to Cleveland and spent her holiday. When she got back to Montgomery she was still infuriated with the incident on the bus. She later joined the Women’s Political Council (WPC). She later realized what she had to do. She had to test the the city’s segregated bus seating. Eventually they got the bus drivers to stop at every corner in black neighborhoods just like they did in the white neighborhoods. Robinson, later got the courage to talk to the mayor about the bus seats too. She told him that 3 quarters of the bus was African Americans and the threatening of boycotting. She implied that it would be to dangerous to boycott because they could be fired from there jobs, harassed on the streets and worse. She realized that anger in the black community grew and saw there was no other way to get there point across without a boycott. I did not find this character interesting because she didn’t stand up for her rights, she just got off the bus and left instead of standing her ground. On
I found Claudette interesting because she refused to get up out of her seat because she knew knew she had every right to sit there and she basically risked her life to stand up for her rights. Later on December 1, 1955 another black girl boarded a bus and sat right behind the white section and sat there, her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks played a big role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She had taken a special interest in Claudette Colvin’s because she knew her. Parks was a seamstress in a downtown Montgomery department store. Rosa was also known because she served as a secretary in NAACP and also work as the advisor of the Youth’s council. Rosa got off of work one day and boarded the bus and she sat behind the white section. The bus started to fill so the bus driver told the first row of black people to move to the back of the bus. Rosa didn't give up her seat. The bus driver called the police and they soon arrived and Parks was driven to the city jail and had her fingerprint and photograph made. Rosa was allowed one phone call and called her mom and asked if her husband could come and pick her up. Rosa had been charged with violating the state’s segregation laws. Later after she was released Rosa, her husband Raymond, and her mom sat in the living room with