Presents a short biography of Rosa Parks, and chronicles her childhood in segregated Alabama, her education and association with the NAACP, and her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, which sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Presents an account of the case of Plessy v. Ferguson in which the Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana law allowing for racial segregation in public facilities; looks at the social environment of the late nineteenth-century at the time the case was brought; and discusses the aftermath of the ruling.
Examines the people, events, and legal issues involved in the Supreme Court case that challenged a state's right to allow separate but equal railroad accomodations for different races.
Provides an account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a civil rights protest sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in 1955, and which eventually led to ninety percent of African-American citizens in Montgomery, Alabama, refusing to ride city buses until the laws against segregation were upheld.
Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.
Profiles the 1896 Supreme Court trial that tested the constitutionality of laws in the South that enforced racial segregation in train travel, and discusses the impact of the verdict which provided a legal cover for racial discrimination throughout the United States.
