USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -At age 15, on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman. Colvin was motivated by what she had been learning in school about African American history and the U.S. Constitution. Note that this action took place just days after Black History Month.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1955, Parks rejected a bus driver’s order to leave a row of four seats in the “colored” section once the white section had filled up and move to the back of the bus. Her defiance sparked a successful boycott of buses in Montgomery a few days later.

Detailed explanation-5: -No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” “I was not tired physically, ” she wrote in her biography, in response to the myth that she refused to give up her seat because her feet were tired. “No more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.