By sitting down at the counter and demanding service, the students challenged not only counter segregation but the whole Jim Crow structure. ... Ten days into the trip they pulled into a bus terminal. ... The bus driver quickly drove off but the mob caught up with the bus. They smashed the windows, and tossed a firebomb into the bus. As the bus went up in flames the riders rushed out in the hands of the white mob and were brutally beaten. ...

• Word Count: 480
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman refused to vacate a bus seat for a white male. ... This meant that there was a division of white and black people at restaurants, drink fountains, public toilets, hotels, buses and many other public facilities. ... Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the protest group in a boycott of the Montgomery city bus system. ... The buses were desegregated in December of that year and the boycott ended. ... Within eighteen months of its establishment 70 000 freedom riders had taken part in sit-ins across the country against segregated services. ...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Prior to the bus incident Rosa was still fighting. She had run-ins with bus drivers and was evicted from buses. ... (Note: It was an "established rule" in the American south (at that time) that African-American bus riders had to sit at the back of the bus. ... After twelve months of 50,000 blacks boycotting Montgomery's bus service, a federal court ordered the desegregation of the cities buses. ... Glen Smiley, a white minister, shared the front seat of a public bus. ...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Her choice sparked the African American movement during the sixties, igniting others into the bus boycott in Selma Alabama. ... Slaves were used principally for personal and domestic service, including concubine. ... These laws separated blacks and whites in such areas of public life as schools, restaurants, drinking fountains, bus stations, and public transportation. ... Freedom Rides, bus trips throughout the South that attempted to desegregate buses and stations. ... Service E. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6

In the south bathrooms, movie theathers, bus seats, train seats, and drinking fountains were often indicated for blacks or whites. ... In disregard of the court decision, there was no legal way to make sure the services was always equal. ... He told people to stop using the buses until they treated blacks and whites To What Extent 5 ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ... (Frankenberg) More recently, the Supreme Court's refusal to review a Charlotte, N.C. desegregation case led to the end of the oldest busing program in the country (Study 6). ...

• Word Count: 6633
• Approx Pages: 27