Rosa Parks: The Birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- ISBN-10
- 1412092868
- ISBN-13
- 9781412092869
- Series
- Rosa Parks
- Pages
- 209
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Roberta Hughes Wright
Description
When Rosa Parks was ordered to give up her seat, she defied the conventional assumption that her blackness was a badge of inferiority. She just sat there. Mrs. Parks in her own words – “Why do I have to stand up so someone else can have my seat?” E.D. Nixon was the community activist who people trusted. He had spent years waiting for the right person to defy the law. He immediately knew that Rosa was the person, strong enough to represent the community and she would not back down. Mr. Nixon, a sleeping car porter on the Montgomery to Chicago run, spent December 2 with Reverend Ralph Abemathy, informing the black ministers of Mrs. Parks’ arrest and about the plans for a meeting, hopefully to plan a one-day boycott. The ministers met. At the same time JoAnn Gibson Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College and a member of the Women’s Political Council, had been charged with plans to attack the system. Robinson used the mimeograph machine as her ammunition. Who would be the president of this new group? Who could help try to organize a boycott for Monday, December 5? Someone suggested that the Reverend Martin Luther King was new to the community and not identified with any political group. Nixon had heard him speak once at a NAACP meeting and said he was good. King was selected; he hesitated to accept but agreed. That night when King spoke, pandemonium broke out. The churchwomen rocked with emotion and screamed. Thunderous hand-clapping and foot-stomping shook the church to its foundation. From that night there was no turning back, they would never be the same again… nor would anyone else.
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