December 1st marks the day that in 1955 Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, got on a bus to ride home from work. She was tired and her feet hurt, but there were no seats available at the back of the bus where the black people were supposed to sit. So she sat down in the front part of the bus. When a white man asked her to get up and move, she decided that her feet hurt too badly and refused to move. The bus driver drove the bus to the police station where she was arrested. This was one of many events that gave rise to the Civil Rights movement. Black people in Montgomery boycotted the buses for more than a year after her arrest. After the boycott, racial segregation on city buses was outlawed. Pretend that you are Rosa Parks. You have worked all day and are tired. The law says you must sit in the back of the bus, but all the seats are taken. What would you do? Would you break the law? Why or why not?

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after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.