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In some southern states of the USA, the seating on busses was separated into White and Black sections until the late 1950s. Black people were not allowed to sit in the White section.
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Why was Jackie Robinson arrested?
Because he refused to back off a segregated bus
Who challenged the segregated seating law on city bus in Montgomery Alabama?
Rosa Parks
Why is rose parks important?
started civil rights movement by not giving her seat on a segregated bus
What was life like for African American women?
They weren't respected. They were segregated. They had to sit in the back of the bus.
What did people in Montgomery Alabama do too oppose segregation?
They walked instead of riding the bus.
What caused the bus boycotts and what was the impact on civil rights?
A cause of the montgomery bus boycott was Rosa Parks refusing to move on the segregated buses and an effect was that buses became unsegregated
Why was Lt. Thomas Williams the witness Congressman Powell speaks about put in jail?
Because he refused to sit in segregated seating on a bus.
Freedom Rides?
Civil Rights campaigners took long bus rides to show that public transport was still segregated in the early 1960s
What part of Rosa Parks life could be admired?
When she refused to move seats on a segregated bus and got arrested for it, starting the civil rights movement.
A sentence with segregation?
At 1955, the buses of Montgomery, Alabama, were segregated, which meant that whites sat in the front part of the bus and African Americans sat in the back.
Jackie Robinson finishing his term as a.?
In WWII he served as a 2nd lieutenant but was arrested before he fought for refusing to sit in the back of a segregated bus during training.
What happened to Rosa parks that shocked the world?
What she did was refuse to get up from the front of the bus back when black and whites were segregated and black people always had to sit in the back of the bus, but what made her coragious was that she refused to get up and let a white person sit down and had to go to jell. she started the bus boycott when all blacks refused to ride the bus.
