1 dez 1955 ano - Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott
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In 1955, coloured Americans were still obligated by a Montgomery city to sit in the back half of city buses and were to give up their seats to white people if the front half of the bus, reserved for whites, was crowded. However, on the 1st of December, 1955, African-American tailor Rosa Parks was on her travels home on Montgomery’s Cleveland Avenue bus from her job at the local department store. She was seated in the front row of what was called the “coloured section.” When the white seats were filled, the driver, J. Fred Blake, asked Rosa Parks and three other coloured people to vacate their seats. The other African-American riders complied, but Parks refused to give up her position. She was arrested and then later fined $10, plus $4 in court fees. This was not Parks’ first encounter with Blake. In 1943, she had paid her fare at the front of a bus he was driving, then exited so she could re-enter through the back door, as required. Blake started the bus and took off before she could re-board the bus. Rosa, therefore, began a 13-month mass protest. The outcome of this act of pure bravery led the Supreme Court to rule that bus segregation was to eradicated.
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