Bus+Boycott

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 * The movement started on the day in 1943 when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus drive off as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the driver had told her to do. However, in 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat with three other blacks in the fifth row, the first row that blacks could occupy. A few stops later, the front four rows were filled with whites, and one white man was left standing. According to law, blacks and whites could not occupy the same row, so the bus driver asked all four of the blacks seated in the fifth row to move. Three complied, but Parks refused. She was arrested. This incident sparked blacks to seek equal treatment on public transportational systems. The fight for equality came with a heavy price, because many blacks were beaten and killed during the demonstrations. The Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitution to seperate people based on race.