Civil Rights
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks had left her job as a seamstress in Montgomery, she boarded a bus to go home. In 1955 the buses in Montgomery reserved seats for whites, whites in the front and colored in the back; the middle was open only if there were a few whites on board.
Rosa had took a seat just behind the white section, but soon the bus was filled. The bus driver had asked her and two other colored people for the seats, they didn't move. On the second time everyone moved except for Rosa. The bus driver warned her but she still didn't move. So he called the police and she was arrested.
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Within days of her arrest, African Americans in Montgomery organized a boycott of the bus system. This lead to mass protests all over the nation. And after decades of segregation and in-equality, many decided the time for change has came, they demanded equal rights.
Supreme Court declared segregation to be constitutional in "Plessy v. Ferguson" in 1896. This established the "separate-but-equal" doctrine. These laws were nicknamed "Jim Crow" laws, they segregated buses, trains, restaurants, schools, swimming pools, parks, and other public facilities.
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Jim Crow laws were common throughout the South, but it existed in other states also. It was left up to each local community to decide whether to pass segregation laws. Areas without laws requiring segregation often had de facto segregation- segregation by tradition and custom.
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The bus boycott and the beginning of the end would have never happened
