The Montgomery bus boycott success (Essay Sample)

Name Institution Course Date The Montgomery bus boycott success As rendered by Kohl, "Rosa Parks was a very brave person" (8). She refused to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 when she was on a bus heading home. She was seated in the front; a place reserved for the whites. When Rosa failed to give up her seat even with earnest persuasion, the police were called and she was arrested, prompting a boycott by the African-Americans led by M.L. King Jr., which succeeded in emancipating the African-Americans from the slavery of discrimination. The boycott succeeded because Rosa Park was not actually at fault when we consider the situation in a more critical perspective. In fact, she was just rigidly sticking to the traditional norms of the bus. Though the seat she sat on was just behind the last row of seats meant for the whites, she was not by any means obliged to yield to the request of the bus driver of surrendering her seat to make more room for whites to sit. 10 seats had been reserved for the whites, and 26 seats for the blacks. Therefore she was right in sitting on one of the 26 seats meant for the blacks. It also succeeded because of the orderliness with which the movement was executed. Jo Ann Robinson, with the help of colleagues and friends managed to execute the drafting and strategically circulating notices of the mov...