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In the year 1944, Jackie Robinson took a stand just like Rosa Parks agenst an army officer in Fort Hood, Texas, when he refused to go to the back of the bus. Jackie went to court, and he was found not gulity. The court had let cases like that go through before like Irene Morgan 10 years before, this was a victory due to a law called Commerece Clause. Her winning, for some reason, had repealed the segragation law on highway travel, such as busses, the bus companies worked around it by putting in the Jim Crow law in the southern states. In November of 1955, 3 weeks before Rosa Parks dos not follow the Jim Crow law, the ICC,(Interstate Commerece Commission), due to a call by WAC Sara Keys, had closed what Morgan had done in a case called Keys vs Southern bus companies. The ICC told the bus companies they could not put in there own segragation rules on people riding on buses on the interstate, and they said that if they did it would be a violation of the Interstate Commerece Act. The courts ruling on the Morgan case and Keys case had no effect on the Jim Crow law. African Americans who wanted to do something about the bus segragation laws about the arrest of a 15 year old girl, her name was Claudeet Colvin, a student at a high school called Brooker T. Washington in Montgomery. On March 2, 1955, Colvin was arrested, and she was brought out of the bus by the police when she would not give up her seat to a white man. She said they where takeing away her rights. When this happened, she was in a group for ai NAACP youth club, where Rosa Parks was an advisor. Colvin regained her confidince, Rosa Parks said, "Do what it is right". Rosa Parks was rasaing money Colvin, but when E.D. Nixion learned that she was having a baby, they said that she is not allowed to do that because she is not sutibale. Soon after she got arrested she thought about her child when he would be married. Colvin was known to yell and swear. Most of the stuff that Colvin did that was a law that she broke was droped. That was never turned out to be a big problem, but the people defending Colvin tried to get something out of the case. In the south cities, the first 4 rows of the bus are reserved for white people. Buses had diffrent seats for black people, whitch made up 75% of the people who ride the bus, and they also made them sit in the back. The sections could be changed in size when you move the sign. Black people could sit in the middle row, untill the white person row was full. They had to move to the back of the bus and sit, they can also stand, and if there was no room, they had to get off the bus. Black people where not allowed to sit across from white people. The driver could push back the colored sign, or just take it out. African Americans could sit in the middle intill there was no space in the white person section. They could move farther back, stand or they could just get off the bus. Black people could not sit across from white people either. The driver could move back the colored sign, and he can also get rid of it all together. If white people where sitting in the front, black people had to pay to board the bus, but then they had to get of the bus and walk in through the back door. For along time black americans said it was unfair and Rosa Parks said it to. Rosa Parks said" My resisting being mistreated on the bus din not begin with that particular arrest......I did alot of walking in Montgomery". Rosa Parks had her first problems on the bus when it was raining on a day in 1943, with the bus driver, James F. Blake, told her she needed to get of the bus and go in through the back door. Right when she was getting of the bus, she dropped her purse. Rosa Parks sat down in a seat waiting for a white passenger to pick up her purse. Right after she was ready to get in through the back door the bus driver speed away. Rosa Parks walked 5 miles in the rain to get home. Sites used: www. wikipedia. org, www. rosaparks fact. com, Book Rosa Parks my story

Sites used: www. wikipedia.