Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott;by Chrissy

 Author’s note

 Rosa Parks was born on February 14, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and died in 2005. Rosa Parks married Raymond Parks in December, 1932 and Raymond Parks died in 1977. Rosa Parks madden name was Rosa McCauley. In 1957 Rosa moved to Detroit. Rosa’s parents Leona Edwards (That was her mothers last name before she got married)and James McCauley got married on April 12, 1912 in Pine Level, Alabama. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks got arrested from not giving up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery.

This story is about Rosa Parks going to E.D. Nixon for help and the approval of the Boycotting of the buses. We know Rosa Parks as the person who fought to sit in the front of the bus but she did much more.  If it was not for Rosa Parks, black people wouldn’t have the same rights as white people do today.

This is were the story begins.

 I had been arrested for not giving up my seat to a white man in the front of the bus. I could not stand having to be pushed around like a baby in a stroller. I don’t want to be in jail again for not following that silly LAW.

“I am one out of many people who have the courage to stand up for them self. I thought I was the only one who could make this happen but I guessed wrong many people do it.

“I  still have to do something” I thought.

I decided to go to E.D. Nixon, the  president of the NAACP, for help.  Once I said I am ready to fight for the right to sit in the front of the bus, E.D. Nixon got busy trying to make this  plan happen but it takes time but how much time? 

E.D. Nixon said, “I know a woman who was in a group called the Woman’s Political Council, she is fighting for the same reason you are fighting. Her name is Jo Ann Robinson.”

Jo Ann Robinson must be a very good person to do what we are doing. I thought I was the only one who had the courage to do this but i guess there are many people who do it. JoAnn Robinson told Nixon that night, that the group had a plan to stop riding buses.  The next Friday E.D. Nixon called a meeting with the towns Black Ministers. I was so exited but it was either a YES or NO and it was hard to not scream of happiness. E.D. Nixon wanted the ministers to help with the plan.  He wanted all blacks to stop riding the buses on Monday morning. The Black Ministers thought forever at least that is what it felt like. I was so nervous this will make a big difference if they say “yes” and if they say “no” I would not belive it at all.

The black ministers said, “We will let the boycott go on.”

Now that we’re boycotting the buses, blacks will have equal rights and the world is going to be a better place.