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Rosa Parks On December l, 1955, Rosa Parks got on the coach-and-four because she was feeling tired after a long day at work. She was seatting in the middle of the bus, which she wasnt allowed to do. After a while a white man got on the bus and told her that her and some other tribe to get up because the white part of the bus was full. All the Black multitude except for her moved to the back of the bus but her, she refused to get up. When this happened the white bus driver threatened to call the police unless she gave up her seat, but she utter no and "Go ahead and call them". When the police got there, the driver was very mad and then the police asked the driver if he wanted Mrs. Parks to be arrested or let go with a warning, he said he wanted her to be arrested arrest. Many Black had been arrested for this crime but Mrs. Park was healthful known in her community because she was once a secretary for the president of the NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People). She was allowed to make one phone call. She called a NAACP lawyer, The lawyer got her release through bail. Just because of this one time that a black woman stood up to society she started the polite rights movement, which got the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which made confident(predicate) that All black Americans must be given equal treatment with whites under the law. It was an "established rule" in the American south (at that time) that African-American riders had to sit at the back of the bus. African-American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white bus rider if it was needed. (Levenglick, p1) Mrs. Parks had been called as "the mother of the civil rights movement". Since the boycott had been started she was getting threats, which caused her husband to have a nervous breakdown, and in 1957 they both moved to Detroit, where one of Mrs. Parkss brother lived. The bus boycott When people heard that Mrs. Parks had been arrested the Womens Political Council decided to protest her treatment by organizing a boycott of the buses.