In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience.
“The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
According to a Montgomery city ordinance in 1955, African Americans were required to sit at the back of public buses and were also obligated to give up those seats to white riders if the front of the bus filled up. Parks was in the first row of the Black section when the white driver demanded that she give up her seat to a white man. Parks’ refusal was spontaneous but was not merely brought on by her tired feet, as is the popular legend. In fact, local civil rights leaders had been planning a challenge to Montgomery’s racist bus laws for several months, and Parks had been privy to this discussion.
Learning of Parks’ arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by Black citizens on Monday, December 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest. The first day of the bus boycott was a great success, and that night the 26-year-old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., told a large crowd gathered at a church, “The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.” King emerged as the leader of the bus boycott and received numerous death threats from opponents of integration. At one point, his home was bombed, but he and his family escaped bodily harm.
The boycott stretched on for more than a year, and participants carpooled or walked miles to work and school when no other means were possible. As African Americans previously constituted 70 percent of the Montgomery bus ridership, the municipal transit system suffered gravely during the boycott. On November 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On December 20, King issued the following statement: “The year old protest against city buses is officially called off, and the Negro citizens of Montgomery are urged to return to the buses tomorrow morning on a non-segregated basis.” The boycott ended the next day. Rosa Parks was among the first to ride the newly desegregated buses.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and his nonviolent civil rights movement had won its first great victory. There would be many more to come.
Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005. Three days later the U.S. Senate passed a resolution to honor Parks by allowing her body to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
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More Bolshevik lies designed to create social chaos which always leads to sheep begging for more government control of their own lives.
“Learning of Parks’ arrest, the NAACP and other African American activists” When you first learn of an event you actually planned…reeeee
History.com is fake and gay.
” THE PATTERN OF ELITE DECEPTION
The portrayal of Rosa Parks as an ordinary citizen triggered my alarm bell. Betty Friedan, the “founder” of feminism and longtime Communist activist was also depicted as an average mother and housewife. Thanks to Daily Kos.com, I quickly discovered that Rosa Parks began working as a secretary for the NAACP in 1943 and still held that position when she was arrested.
In July 1955, five months before the famous incident in December, she attended “Highlander Folk School” in Monteagle Tennessee. Myles Horton and James Dombroski, both Communist Party members, started this school in 1932 to train Communist activists. Betty Friedan was another alumnus. The school was cited for subversive activities and closed by the State of Tennessee in 1960. It seems to be up and running again.
Rosa Parks and many others had defied the bus segregation laws on numerous occasions since the 1940′s. The Montgomery bus boycott was planned in advance. Martin Luther King was brought in to lead it. Rosa Parks was chosen to kick it off. (See Aldon Morris, “The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement”)
Rosa Parks was a member of the party. This is something Communists don’t advertise. David Horowitz writes in Radical Son that his Communist Party parents claimed Rosa was a member.”
https://beforeitsnews.com/strange/2017/12/rosa-parks-why-do-americans-worship-traitors-2469665.html
It goes even deeper. Parks had a history of conflict with the driver of the bus. The entire incident was carefully staged, and the bus, and driver, were chosen for the charade. This was probably the most famous (and false) “racial discrimination” and civil right hoaxes of all time.
And nowadays, negroes won’t let whitey sit at the back of the bus. Rosa Parks wouldn’t recognize young negro men today. Heck, they’d rob her – or make her stand.
“Great Society”. Heh. Good one.
Today, Rosa Parks would be raped before she got two blocks.
Later in life, she was actually attacked in her home by a black burglar who punched her in the face even after recognizing her and asking her if she was Rosa Parks. She confirmed her identity but it made no difference to the thug.
The portrayal of Rosa Parks as an ordinary citizen niggered my alarm bell.
FIFY
Buses are GREAT! The great equalizer. No matter what your station in life is, you get on a bus and you begin to realize you’re no better than every other piece of shit on the planet.
You want to get motivated to improve your lot in life? Ride a city bus. ANY bus, really. Or the subway for that matter.
Just don’t become a bus driver. That much enlightenment was not meant for mortal man.
In cities and towns that are majority white, you can still ride buses with no problems. However, if the black population goes beyond a certain percentage, the buses turn into Congo Cruisers which no one in their right mind would use.
In all fairness, I’ve ridden on a LOT of different public venues. I don’t care what neighborhood you live in…if fuckin’ buses are running there, you’re living in the wrong neighborhood!
In other words, you’re always going to find the lowest common denominator on common transit.
This one’s for you, Rosa!!!
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And the blacks are so much better off for having begged for their place in the human race. Fucking please!
“Bad attitude, bruh. They kick you out for shit like that.” – Starship Troopers
NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT THERE WAS A YOUNG 16 YEAR OLD PREGNANT BLACK AMERICAN WHO HAD BEEN THROWN TO THE BACK OF THE BUS DAYS BEFORE ROSA PARKS. ROSA PARKS WAS WELL KNOWN CIVIL RIGHTS AGITATOR FOR BLACKS AND SO WAS THE PERFECT PERSON TO STAGE THE FRONT OF THE BUS INCIDENT. THE YOUNG PREGNANT BLACK WOMAN WAS BASICALLY TOSSED UNDER THE BUS AND LOST TO HISTORY. Claudette Colvin LOOK HER UP.
She wasn’t the first negro to refuse to sit at the back, the first one was a Republican so you never hear about her.