Civil Rights Informative Speech

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Today was a very eventful day in Montgomery, Alabama. I was coming home from my downtown office at the NAACP or The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I had just finished trying to get a workshop together for the association when I boarded a bus not even thinking to look at the bus driver until it was too late to get off. It was the bus driver that I had a run in with a couple years ago, involving me to getting on the front and demanding me to go to the back and get on. The same old, tall, mean-looking, rough skinned, bus driver. I saw a seat in the front of the colored section and sat there with my coats and purse. I am not a very big person and only 42 years old. A stubborn person I was. I was thinking about the latest thing we were trying to get together at the NAACP. We were looking for a case to bring to court where the accused had really done…show more content…
The bus driver was there, who was named James P. Blake. The jury was full and there was a big crowd inside and outside the courthouse. I took my seat and was questioned and I pleaded not guilty. That did not matter, because the judge was not going to take my side. I was fined $14 that morning for my crime, but I wasn’t done in downtown because there was a meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church to elect a president for the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA). We decided on Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. He seemed like a good choice, young, good looking, a good speaker. That meeting people came in the masses. We filled up the whole church and the blocks surrounding the church. It was quite a turnout. We talked about the boycott and about some demands that would be presented and if those were denied who knows how long we wouldn’t be riding the buses. The demands were: 1.First-come, first-served seating no matter where they sat 2.Black drivers were to be hired for black bus routes 3.Respectful treatment on the

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