The documentary is about Rosa Parks a woman who was the symbol of a form of resistance because she didnt accept to be discriminated against. In 1955, in Alabama, Rosa Parks contested/ refused the bus driver's order, which was to vacate her seat/to give up her seat for a white man. During the segregation era, the front seats were only for white people, whereas back seats were for Black people.
It was also known as"Jim Crow laws", it was a law which separated Black, and mixed people from Caucasian ( white people).
She was then arrested, she went to prison.
After this event, there was a bus boycott in buses, during which people didn't take the bus. It lasted over a year, and the bus company almost went bankrupt and asked for the boycott to stop.
Segregation in buses was forbidden after that.
Jim Crows were theater characters that made people laugh, he was a laughing stock.
She actually helped end segregation in the Us, along with Martin Luther King who was for a peaceful settlement of problems, and Malcom X, who suggested that violence could be used sometimes.
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