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“The first thing I did the morning after I went to jail was to call the number the woman in the cell with me had written down on that crumpled piece of paper.” Parks reached the woman’s brother. A number of days later, she saw the woman on the street looking much better. About 9:30 p.m, Rosa Parks was bailed out by E.D. Nixon and the Durrs. In December 1955, Rosa Parks' refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful conclusion The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks rode before she was arrested (a GM "old-look" transit bus, serial number 1132), is now on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum. On the night of Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council , led by Jo Ann Robinson , printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community that Excerpted from "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" Going to Jail. After being escorted into city hall, Parks laughed to herself. After an hour or two, the Durrs left, but Nixon stayed for Several hours after her arrest she was bailed out of jail by NAACP activist E.D. Nixon, civil rights lawyer Clifford Durr and his activist wife, Virginia. Julia Child and Rosa Parks. She left 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. Parks left the Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, for refusing to surrender her seat on a bus to a white passenger. In an excerpt from The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Jeanne Theoharis traces the aftermath of Parks’s arrest and the lead-up to the bus boycott, and shows exactly what was at stake for Parks when she made the decision to let her arrest be used as the In 1954, more than a year before Parks' act of civil disobedience, Robinson wrote a letter to the mayor of Montgomery warning that "there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city-wide boycott of busses." Immediately after Parks was arrested, Nixon and Robinson sprung into action. A court document filed after Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on a bus at the archive of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. African-Americans had wilfully violated the segregation of public transport before Rosa Parks, even in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, where 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months earlier for the same crime of refusing to give up her bus seat. Yet it was Parks’ now immortalised Rosa Parks: Well, the first meeting was not at the Baptist Church. The first meeting we had was at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King's church where he was pastoring. That was — on Friday evening. INTERVIEWER: I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BIG MEETING AT THE — Rosa Parks: Oh, the big meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church. Rosa Parks refuses to vacate her seat and move to the rear of a Montgomery city bus to make way for a white passenger. The driver notifies the police, who arrest Parks for violating city and state ordinances. Parks is released on $100 bond. After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. Due to economic sanctions used against activists, she lost her job at the department store. What happened to Rosa Parks because she would not get out of her seat on the bus? The bus driver left her alone. Rosa Parks was sent to jail. He proceeded to handcuff Ms. Parks and take her to jail. Boycott Begins. African Americans in Montgomery were alarmed. They knew and respected Ms. Parks and would not tolerate her being abused in any way. After being taken to jail in handcuffs, Rosa Parks was fingerprinted and taken to a cell. Both Parks and Nixon were astonished because black people tended to stay away from the courthouse, a site of injustice, if they could help it. One of the members of Parks’ Youth Council, Mary Frances, observed, “They’ve messed with the wrong one now,” turning it into a small chant. Parks had been charged with a violation of city law. The bus driver left her alone. Rosa Parks was sent to jail. What happened after Rosa Parks went to jail? There was a bus boycott. She went back to work. After Rosa Parks left work at the Montgomery Fair department store on Thursday, December 1, 1955, she boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus at Court Square to go home. At the time, she was thinking about a workshop she was helping organize and thus she was a bit distracted as she took a seat on the bus, which turned out to be in the row right behind Rosa Louise Parks (1913–2005) She was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Alabama in 1913 and her parents separated when she was a child. She moved to Montgomery with her mother. She married Raymond Parks and both became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Excerpted from "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" Going to Jail. After being escorted into city hall, Parks laughed to herself. After an hour or two, the Durrs left, but Nixon stayed for
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