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DOMESTIC SERVICE IN THE SOUTH

Domestic Workers work within the employers home. Jobs include cooking, cleaning, care for children, ironing,, laundry, running

errands, etc. During the Post Slavery Period, “In the eyes of the former slaveholders, "domestic

service" must have been a courteous term for a contemptible occupation not a half-step away from slavery.”

The buses in Montgomery served each day as many as 40,000 blacks and 12,000 whites

First ten seats of every bus were reserved for white riders Last 26 seats were reserved for blacks

HOW MANY OF THE DOMESTIC WORKERS WERE BUS RIDERS AND LATER BECAME

FREEDOM WALKERS?

http://eblackstudies.org/intro/chapter11.htmFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

BEFORE ROSA PARKS

Jo Ann Robinson, educator and civil rights activist Verbally attacked by bus driver Christmas 1949 Printed 35,000 handbills for the Bus Boycott

when Rosa Parks was arrested; helped deliver them

1950’s elected president of the WPC (Women’s Political Council)

http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/robinson-jo-ann-1912-1992

Sixteen-year-old Edwina Johnson and her brother Marshall Arrested for sitting on a bus next to a white man and boy and refusing to

move Spent two days in jailFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

Claudette Colvin, teenager An A student at Booker T. Washington High March 2, 1955 Sent to jail for refusing to give up her seat Charged for violating segregation laws, assault,

battery, resisting arrestFreedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

BEFORE ROSA PARKS

Mary Louise Smith 18 years-old at the time Arrested when she refused to move to

the back of the bus After being asked three times by the

bus driver she said, “I am not going to move out of my seat. I am not going to move anywhere. I got the privilege to sit here like anybody else does.”

Pleaded guilty; fined $5

http://www.riversofchange.org/women_smith.html#Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell FreedmanTWO MONTHS LATER ON DECEMBER

1, 1955…

THE FAMOUS ROSA PARKS

“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired,” Rosa

Parks wrote in her autobiography, “but that isn't true. I was not tired

physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.

I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was,

was tired of giving in.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0

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DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

December 1, 1955 Famous Rosa Parks Arrest

Bus Boycott ended in December 1956

Bus Boycott was lead by Martin Luther King Jr.

Bus Boycott lead to the Freedom Walkers

Freedom Riders and Sit-ins followed in a number of Southern States

February 1, 1960 First anti-segregation sit-in at Woolworths’ whites-only lunch-counter in Greensboro, North Carolina was lead by four black college students

May 4, 1961 First Freedom Riders – seven blacks and six whites tested equal access to services at bus terminals from Washington DC to New Orleans

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

Seated, left to right, are Joan Trumpauer (now Mulholland), and

Anne Moody (Coming of Age in Mississippi). Anne is now 71 years old. She

lives in New York, has one daughter and does not grant interviews. She works for a poverty program in the city.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

Left, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil

Above right, Matthew Walker, Peggy Alexander, Diane Nash and Stanley Hemphill

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

Fisk University student Jean

Wynona Fleming

Above, John Lewis, O.D. Hunt, and Dennis Gregory Foote, after their

arrest at a downtown lunch counter. Right, students who were

also arrested.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

Gasping for breath, James Bevel and John Lewis are trapped inside a Nashville restaurant filled with insecticide gas when the manager turns on a

fumigating machine to disrupt a sit-in.

DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT?

Sit-in images were taken from: http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgcoll.htm

Freedom Rider Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8CAKAXR-AM

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Music: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=1071