Rosa Parks

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested when she refused to listen to a Montgomery bus driver's order to give her seat up for a boarding white passenger as required by city law. There were many laws in the South during that time made to separate the races.

The African Americans in Montgomery's were outraged about Rosa Parks' arrest. In protest, many people chose to boycott against the city's bus line -- the people chose to walk rather than use the buses.

The Boycott ended in December 1956, over a year after it began, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of buses in Montgomery.

Math Challenge April 11

Rosa Parks, was a seamstress who helped bring attention to the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. She was jailed on Dec. 1, 1955, for violating Alabama’s bus segregation law, which sparked a 381-day bus boycott by the African American Community of Montgomery. The bus boycott cost the bus company hundreds of thousands of dollars and nearly shut the company down.

How much did a gallon of gas cost?

Alex just bought 10 gallons of gas for $17.50. The price per gallon that Alex paid was $1.44 more than a gallon of gas cost in 1955.

How much did a gallon of gas cost?


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