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Bus driver defied by Rosa Parks after he ordered her to give up her seat – eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott James Frederick Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama , whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery bus boycott . On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made her historic civil rights stand by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Had she noticed who was behind the wheel, she probably James Fred Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Born on April 14, 1912, Blake was drafted into the Army on December 23, 1943, at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama. James F. Blake, the Montgomery, Ala., bus driver who had Rosa Parks arrested in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, has died. He was 89. Blake died of a heart attack Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move ("Move y'all, I want those two seats,") to the back of the bus. Three riders complied; Parks did not. The following excerpt of what happened next is from Douglas Brinkley's 2000 Rosa Park's biography. Montgomery bus station manager Charles H. Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote "#2857" and "Blake/#2857." James Blake was the bus driver who had Rosa Parks arrested. Timeline of Rosa’s Life. 1913: Rosa Parks is born on February 4th in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1935: Rosa marries Raymond Parks and has two children. 1943: Rosa becomes a nurse during World War II. 1955: Rosa boards the Montgomery City bus and refuses to give up her seat to a white person. The Bus Driver’s Courage. On December 1, 1955, Parks’ act of defiance became a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks was arrested and charged with violating the city’s segregation laws, but she refused to pay the fine. Instead, she continued to work as a bus driver, using her position to advocate for the rights of African On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman took a seat on the bus on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress. Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social revolution when the bus driver instructed her to move back, and she refused. Rosa Parks, an African American, was When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move. She refused. Her resistance set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions On Saturday, 63 years after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to change seats on the Cleveland Avenue bus, a replica of the city transport will sit parked outside the Troy University Rosa Parks Laketran Driver Monica Evans sitting next to the seat marked reserved in honor of Rosa Parks. Throughout the week of February 3rd, the first seat on Laketran and Geauga Transit buses will be reserved for a tribute commemorating Parks' commitment to public transit equity and impact on the modern Civil Rights Movement. FULL NAME: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks BORN: February 4, 1913 DIED: Three of the other Black passengers on the bus complied with the driver, but Parks refused and remained seated. Blake Rosa Parks' Bus . In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. The boycott proved to be one of the pivotal moments of the emerging civil rights movement. For 13 months, starting in December 1955, the black citizens of Montgomery protested nonviolently with the goal of desegregating the city’s public buses. As a gesture of contempt, bus drivers sometimes drove off before a Black rider could re-enter the bus after paying the fare. Rosa Parks: Well, I was, when I would not give my money to the driver if I put the fare in and get on the bus, the driver who had me arrested did evict me from the bus in 1943. After 1956, Rosa Parks could sit wherever she wanted on the bus Image: UIG/IMAGO The experience also shaped King, who became the chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil The actual bus on which Rosa Parks sat was made available for the public to board and sit in the seat that Rosa Parks refused to give up. [ 153 ] On February 4, 2,000 birthday wishes gathered from people throughout the United States were transformed into 200 graphics messages at a celebration held on her 100th Birthday at the Davis Theater for James F. Blake, the bus driver who asked Rosa Parks to move to the back of the bus talks about that historic day.
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