Rosa Parks's Fight for Justice : english chapter 9 class 7th
Read and Answer Answer the following questions.
a) Why did the bus driver ask Rosa Parks to move back?
b) What did the bus driver do when Rosa refused to get up from her seat?
c) Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
d) Who supported Rosa Parks in her fight against injustice?
How did they get the other blacks in the country to participate in their struggle?
Why was Martin Luther King sure that the plan to boycott buses will work?
For how long did the boycott of city buses continue? What was the result?
Answers
Question-
Read and Answer Answer the following questions.
a) Why did the bus driver ask Rosa Parks to move back?
b) What did the bus driver do when Rosa refused to get up from her seat?
c) Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
d) Who supported Rosa Parks in her fight against injustice?
e) How did they get the other blacks in the country to participate in their struggle?
f) Why was Martin Luther King sure that the plan to boycott buses will work?
g) For how long did the boycott of city buses continue? What was the result?
Answer-
a) Rosa was asked to move by the bus driver to give up her seat to a white person that had boarded the bus. This was because, at that time, white people were given more priority in everything.
b) Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. Parks was briefly jailed and paid a fine. But she was also a long-time member of the NAACP and highly respected in her community.
c) Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up the seat when a white man entered the bus.
d) Rosa Parks was supported by the Black-Americans and also some of the White-Americans who wanted to change the existing form of racism.
e) The blacks participated in the struggle for equality by participating in the Civil Rights movement.
f) Martin Luther King was sure that the plan to boycott buses will work. This was because the people wouldn't board the bus resulting in the deduction of income for bus company. He was a firm believer or non-violence.
g) The boycott continued from December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956. This period of time is around 1 year and 6 days. It resulted with the decision from the supreme court of U.S. that the segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.