▪ Could black people use the bus? Rosa Park
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On the 1st of December 1955, Rosa Parks finished work and got on the bus home. The bus seats were allocated according to whether you were a white or Black person. She took a seat on the first row of seats which were intended for Black people. By the third stop on the bus route, all the 'whites only' seats were taken.
Respuesta:
On December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old black woman disobeyed the laws of racial segregation in the United States by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The fight lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person, until December 21, 1956, when the Browder v.
Rosa Parks belonged to an association in favor of the civil rights of African Americans. Her classmates started a protest shortly after she was arrested: "We are asking all black people not to get on the buses on Monday, in protest of the arrest and trial.
Explicación:
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act would end up prohibiting racial segregation in public spaces, as well as discrimination in employment and education.