Rosa Parks

On December 1, 1955, seamstress Mrs. Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat, she was found guilty of the crime of disorderly conduct with a fine of fourteen dollars. She was arrested for violating a city law that required all blacks to sit in separate rows on the buses. She refused to give up her seat in the middle of the row when a white …

…blacks boycotting Montgomery's bus service, a federal court ordered the desegregation of the cities buses. Then on November 13, 1956 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the black boycotters, and after that blacks took any seat they wanted on buses. The same year Dr. King's home was bombed, his wife and their baby daughter escaped without injury. When Dr. King arrived home he found an angry mob waiting. Dr. King told the crowd to go home.