Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Rosa's arrest for breaking bus segregation laws catalyzed the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the keystones in the American Civil Rights Movement. It was widely covered in the national media, which brought more attention to the struggle for equal rights.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcasters. I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:45.7	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	Today we're going to pick up where our previous episode left off we're talking about
0:51.7	Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.
0:54.7	So previously we talked about sort of the historical context of what was going on
0:59.7	in the United States prior to the Civil Rights Movement leading up until
1:03.7	the day that Rosa Parks famously refused to leave her seat on a Montgomery bus.
1:08.7	She was arrested.
1:10.7	And she was going to be tried for breaking Montgomery's bus segregation laws
1:15.7	on Monday, December 5, 1955.
1:18.7	That was just immediately following the weekend of when she had been arrested.
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