Rosa Parks Vs Montgomery

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In America, it is the job of both the government and the people to uphold laws and justice. If the government and the people does not maintain this responsibility our representative democracy could disperse into a system that do not represent the people and could lead to anarchy. Rosa Park’s arrest after her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama caused the city of Montgomery to come together and participate in a bus boycott known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Due to the boycott, Montgomery had no choice but to remove the law of segregation on public buses. In Montgomery, bus drivers had the power to enforce the law of segregation on public buses. When an African American got onto a bus they would have to board

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