Rosa Parks Case Study

Case study

Rosa Parks

In the 1950`s people were openly racist, due to lack of legislations. People could get away with just about anything such as, segregation of blacks, in café`s and on transport. Such as the Rosa Parks, case in which she got on a bus in 1955 in Montgomery Alabama.

She was on her way home from work; she sat near the middle of the bus, behind the seats reserved for white people. The bus soon filled up and when a white man got onto the bus. The driver asked Rosa Parks and the three other blacks that were seated to give up their seats, for the white man. In a spontaneous decision Rosa Parks refused to do this.

This was not a pre-meditated decision, even though her previous civil rights, involvement was an obvious influence. She was arrested for refusing to give her seat up for the white man. She was convicted for violating, the segregation laws known as the Jim Crow laws and she also lost her job due to this.

Rosa Parks appealed her conviction and formally challenged the legality of segregation this prompted a local civil rights activist to initiate a boycott of the Montgomery bus system.

In cities across the south segregated bus companies, were a daily reminder of the boycott. Since African Americans made up 75 per cent of the users in Montgomery, this boycott therefore posed a serious economic threat to the company and a social threat to white rule in the city.

A group named Montgomery improvement association, organised the boycott they chose there leader to be a young Baptist minister, who was Martin Luther King, Jr. sparked by Rosa Parks action the boycott lasted 381 days in December of 1956 the U.S. supreme court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional.

This led to the Montgomery buses to become integrated. This was the beginning of a revolutionary era of non-violent mass protests in support of civil rights in the United States.

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