haven’t post anything for a long time. 18 units are really a heavy course. i took a class which is totally new to me–African American study. i totally have no idea of what is African American history or culture, i took this class just because it is a required class. i was asked to do a presentation on the topic of African American history and culture. so i did a lot of research on the internet. i focused on the history of the civil rights movement and the political impact it has. i searched the detail of two representative movements in the civil rights movement. one is the montgomery bus boycott. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. Parks was arrested because of violated a local ordinance of transportation segregation. After word of this incident reached the black community, 50 African-American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to demand a more humane bus transportation system. And this movement had been pushed for full desegregation of public buses. With the support of most of Montgomery’s 50,000 African Americans, the boycott lasted for more than a year until the local ordinance segregating African-Americans and whites on public buses was lifted. Ninety percent of African Americans in Montgomery took part in the boycotts, which reduced bus revenue by 80%.In November 1956, the movement successfully made a result that Montgomery’s buses had been desegregated. I have studied this part of history before,but the only thing i know is that Martin luther King contributed a lot. It seems that I’m gonna have to search a lot more info about African Americans this semester:)
