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PAGE 1 Civil Rights Case Study Name: Kyle Loeber Partner: Case study: Rosa Parks Bus Incident What happened? summarize the event In December 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks made her mark in the history of American quest for freedom and equality. She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver (following the normal segregation laws) insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there. Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP, quietly refused to give up her seat. Her action was random to the bus driver and the white man, although her previous civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obvious influences. "When I made that decision," she said later, “I knew that I had the strength of my ancestors with me.” She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation. As a result Black people boycotted Montgomery buses. Authorities gave in after six months. Why is this a problem? Which human right is being violated? At that time black peoples civil rights were being violated as long as you had an unwilling or unpaid "slave" in your house or if you neglekted them for their color. For example, Rosa was sitting first and the man was not handicapped or injured he was simply being selfish and racist because he was tinking "Oh, im better than you because I am white and you are black." And Rosa Parks had been thrown off that same bus by that same bus driver. Summarize two perspectives on this issue? Perspective 1: When someone would think that they could overpower someone for their color. And the fact that they would tell the police and get her thrown off the bus so she had to go to jail! But it wasn't a long sentence in fact she only spent about an hour in her jail cell.
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I studied the Rosa Parks montgomery bus boycott.
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Civil Rights Case Study Name: Kyle Loeber Partner: -‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐ Case study: Rosa Parks Bus Incident
What happened? summarize the event
-‐In December 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery City bus to go home from work. On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks made her mark in the history of American quest for freedom and equality. She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver (following the normal segregation laws) insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there. Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP, quietly refused to give up her seat. Her action was random to the bus driver and the white man, although her previous civil rights involvement and strong sense of justice were obvious influences. "When I made that decision," she said later, “I knew that I had the strength of my ancestors with me.” She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.” Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and thus formally challenged the legality of segregation. As a result Black people boycotted Montgomery buses. Authorities gave in after six months.
Why is this a problem? Which human right is being violated?
-‐At that time black peoples civil rights were being violated as long as you had an unwilling or unpaid "slave" in your house or if you neglekted them for their color. For example, Rosa was sitting first and the man was not handicapped or injured he was simply being selfish and racist because he was tinking "Oh, im better than you because I am white and you are black." And Rosa Parks had been thrown off that same bus by that same bus driver.
Summarize two perspectives on this issue?
Perspective 1: When someone would think that they could overpower someone for their color. And the fact that they would tell the police and get her thrown off the bus so she had to go to jail! But it wasn't a long sentence in fact she only spent about an hour in her jail cell.
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Perspective 2: The white man was tired and he wanted to sit. He was raised to be rasict so he thought "Of course if i ask ncely she would move, besides its law that whites are better than blacks." And he didn't think standing would be that bad. White people would pay more taxes and were always bossing the black people so he thought she would politely move out of the way and just stand.
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Who made a difference? name the person or group
The NAACP Rosa Parks
What did the person/group do?
NAACP-‐ In 1909, the NAACP commenced what has become its legacy of fighting legal battles to win social justice for African-‐Americans and indeed, for all Americans. The most significant of these battles were fought and won under the leadership of Charles Hamilton Houston and his student and protégée, Thurgood Marshall. Rosa Parks-‐ Because she would not give up her seat, the bus driver called the police and Rosa Parks was arrested. News of her arrest quickly spread. The NAACP decided to use Rosa Parks to challenge the segregation laws in the courts, while the African-‐American community of Montgomery, Alabama decided to create a boycott of the buses in an effort to make changes.
What type of strategy would you call the action(s) of the person/group?
The NAACP used a peaceful protest through the boycott-‐ They decided to force the change on to everyone not just ask them to change their mind. Rosa Parks-‐ She stood up for herself against the law and she wasn't afraid. She stood up for her civil rights and all people's civil rights.
What changed as a result of this event?
People started to see how stupid racism was and they started to treat black people as equals. People all over the world and the United States were noticing that its very cruel and unfair like when Rosa Parks was arrested just for not moving out of her seat for a white man. It was bad for buisnessbecause black people weren't allowed to eat at "White" restaurants and weren't allowed to drink, shop or even PEE at the same place as white people.
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What can we learn from this event?
