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    forever. On Thursday‚ December 1st‚ 1955 Mrs. Parks was on her way home from a hard day at work on a Montgomery bus. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of the bus and let the whites sit in the front and the middle. on that day‚ rosa parks were sitting in the middle. When another white person came on the bus she was asked to move. He asked her again and she still said no. Then she was forced off the bus then arrested.On the evening

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    The beginning of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference can be accredited to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Black ministers had an unique position in society that allowed them more freedom. While most black citizens had to fear being fired or kicked out of their residences for speaking out about racial injustice‚ churches however were all owned and managed by blacks. Therefore‚ with a lack of control being held over them‚ black ministers made up 2/3’s of the directors on the board of the Southern

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    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a highly important event The Civil Rights Movement featuring several famous and latter important people including The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King jr and civil rights icon Rosa Parks. This was also an early victory for The Civil Rights Movement and The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The event also gave The Civil Rights Movement legitimacy and showed that peaceful protests could yield results. All of the events of the boycott would later have repercussions

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    story about a real boy‚ who is the author. In Sierra Leone‚ everyone had to face the brutality of war. Ishmael was a solid boy‚ who left everything important to him behind to survive when the rebels attacked his small town; moreover‚ he joined army to revenge and changed to be alive‚ then came back to become human again when the war was gone. His culture and the memory of his culture and family all were important parts in his life. In the beginning‚ the author was a normal boy who lives a normal life

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    Assess the significance of the Montgomery bus boycott in the struggle for civil rights in the USA. Evaluate. (50marks) In my essay I will assess the Montgomery bus boycott‚ 1955 and its significance in the struggle for civil rights in the USA and why history has been represented and interpreted in different ways. In addition‚ I will examine the usefulness of sources and evaluate the struggles to get civil rights. I will evaluate

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    Before any of the boycott had started‚ all over the south‚ segregation between the two races was extremely common. Public areas like restaurants‚ rest rooms‚ churches‚ movie theatres‚ etc. had separated blacks from whites. Colored people could not sit where whites could. Blacks could not go to white churches‚ schools or rest rooms. One black woman named Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white person‚ on the public bus. She was arrested and fined. E.D. Nixon had used Parks’ arrest as

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    and the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ oral presentation Caused by the Jim Crow laws‚ Montgomery (Alabama) segregated bus passengers by race. The first four rows of seats on each bus were reserved for whites‚ and the conductors could‚ if necessary‚ order black passengers to move further back when there were no available white seats left. Black people could sit in the middle row‚ until the white section was filled up. If white people were already sitting in the front‚ black people had to board the bus at the

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    minister as well. In 1953 King graduated with his doctorate in Systematic Theology and married Coretta Scott. King settled down in Montgomery Alabama and became a father of four as well as the minister to a Baptist church. His strong education and minister status allowed him to meet leaders in the equality movement. These leaders chose King to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott. His peaceful law abiding protest was a huge

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    Why did the Montgomery bus boycott succeed? In December 1995‚ a bus boycott began‚ it all started with a black woman named Rosa parks. Even though she is not the first African American this happened to‚ it all started when she bought a ticket on the bus to go home after a long day’s work. A white man got on the bus and the driver asked her to move‚ she refused and were arrested. After her story was heard around the town the bus boycott began‚ the local blacks and some whites got involved with the

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    Bishop Writing The Montgomery Bus Boycott On December 1st‚ 1955‚ one woman’s refusal to move from a bus seat made a huge contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. As a matter of fact‚ it was almost as if she started it herself. Rosa Parks and her arrest are what led up to be a main event during the Civil Rights Movement. The African American community knew that by having this boycott‚ it would cost many white people money‚ but more importantly the bus company. This mass protest

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