Essay On Bus Freedom

Bus Freedom On December 1, 1955, a black woman was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man. This event during the Civil Rights Movement sparked a massive boycott against the bus system, the boycott affected the way black’s had to travel throughout their own cities, and the Freedom Rides also started to after Rosa’s arrest. The Rosa Parks’ arrest sparked a massive boycott against the bus system. At the time of the Rosa Parks’ arrest buses were segregated. This meant that black’s had to sit in the back of buses and whites got to sit in the front. The boycott was a non-violent protest led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the boycott nobody was killed nor injured during the boycott. The boycott hurt the bus system big time. The reason why was because most of their business came the black community. The boycott caused black’s to
Freedom Rides were basically sit-in’s on buses. Freedom Rides were also a non-violent protest led by surprisingly African American college students. These college students were called Freedom Riders; Freedom Riders wouldn’t fight anybody instead they sat peacefully and didn’t say anything to anyone. Many of the Freedom Rides were most of the time interrupted by whites and the KKK. Whites in the buses would usually hit the Freedom Riders like they would in sit-in’s, and the KKK would burn down buses forcing the Freedom Rides to stop. A Black woman was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; her name was Rosa Parks. Rosa was arrested just for not giving up her seat on a bus, and that one event led to many historical outcomes. My opinion on all of this tragedy that happened during the whole Civil Right era was a horrible time for the whole African American race. But it all worked out at the end of it, every African-American, in the United States are now and forever will be treated