domestic service in the south and the montgomery bus boycott by michelle hilbert rosa
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DOMESTIC S
ERVICE IN
THE S
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MONTGOMERY
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http://www.prlog.org/11427765-rosa-parks-montgomery-bus-boycott.html
Rosa Parks Booked for
Arrest
DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE SOUTH
Domestic Workers work within the employers home. Jobs include cooking, cleaning, care for children, ironing,, laundry, running
errands, etc. During the Post Slavery Period, “In the eyes of the former slaveholders, "domestic
service" must have been a courteous term for a contemptible occupation not a half-step away from slavery.”
The buses in Montgomery served each day as many as 40,000 blacks and 12,000 whites
First ten seats of every bus were reserved for white riders Last 26 seats were reserved for blacks
HOW MANY OF THE DOMESTIC WORKERS WERE BUS RIDERS AND LATER BECAME
FREEDOM WALKERS?
http://eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter11.htmFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
BEFORE ROSA PARKS
Jo Ann Robinson, educator and civil rights activist Verbally attacked by bus driver Christmas 1949 Printed 35,000 handbills for the Bus Boycott
when Rosa Parks was arrested; helped deliver them
1950’s elected president of the WPC (Women’s Political Council)
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/robinson-jo-ann-1912-1992
Sixteen-year-old Edwina Johnson and her brother Marshall Arrested for sitting on a bus next to a white man and boy and refusing to
move Spent two days in jailFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
Claudette Colvin, teenager An A student at Booker T. Washington High March 2, 1955 Sent to jail for refusing to give up her seat Charged for violating segregation laws, assault,
battery, resisting arrestFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
BEFORE ROSA PARKS
Mary Louise Smith 18 years-old at the time Arrested when she refused to move to
the back of the bus After being asked three times by the
bus driver she said, “I am not going to move out of my seat. I am not going to move anywhere. I got the privilege to sit here like anybody else does.”
Pleaded guilty; fined $5
http://www.riversofchange.org/women_smith.html#Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell FreedmanTWO MONTHS LATER ON DECEMBER
1, 1955…
THE FAMOUS ROSA PARKS
“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired,” Rosa
Parks wrote in her autobiography, “but that isn't true. I was not tired
physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.
I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was,
was tired of giving in.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0
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DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
December 1, 1955 Famous Rosa Parks Arrest
Bus Boycott ended in December 1956
Bus Boycott was lead by Martin Luther King Jr.
Bus Boycott lead to the Freedom Walkers
Freedom Riders and Sit-ins followed in a number of Southern States
February 1, 1960 First anti-segregation sit-in at Woolworths’ whites-only lunch-counter in Greensboro, North Carolina was lead by four black college students
May 4, 1961 First Freedom Riders – seven blacks and six whites tested equal access to services at bus terminals from Washington DC to New Orleans
DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
Seated, left to right, are Joan Trumpauer (now Mulholland), and
Anne Moody (Coming of Age in Mississippi). Anne is now 71 years old. She
lives in New York, has one daughter and does not grant interviews. She works for a poverty program in the city.
DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
Left, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil
Above right, Matthew Walker, Peggy Alexander, Diane Nash and Stanley Hemphill
DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
Fisk University student Jean
Wynona Fleming
Above, John Lewis, O.D. Hunt, and Dennis Gregory Foote, after their
arrest at a downtown lunch counter. Right, students who were
also arrested.
DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
Gasping for breath, James Bevel and John Lewis are trapped inside a Nashville restaurant filled with insecticide gas when the manager turns on a
fumigating machine to disrupt a sit-in.
DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?
Sit-in images were taken from: http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgcoll.htm
Freedom Rider Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8CAKAXR-AM
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Music: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1071