As Regards to Bus Segregation
Rosa Parks transported on the bus like everyone else, she is an amazing woman in history. One thing different, she protested without violence and took a lot of accusations to have her right in riding the bus. Texts “Back of the Bus” fiction piece by Aaron Reynolds and “The Story Behind the Bus” a nonfiction piece were both written to explain the time in history that changed bus riding laws for a long time. In 1955 Jim Crow laws are what people went by, like bus transportation, the bus Rosa sat on had ten seats in the front for whites and the rest black. Note that buses were not as big as they are now, and if a white came in and they needed a seat the person sitting right behind the tenth seat had to get up and
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As the author of “The Story Behind the Bus” wrote “In the South, city buses were lightning rods for civil rights activists. It took someone with the courage and character of Rosa Parks to strike with lightning.” The author used Rosa Park’s story to gain the credibility he needed to make the text a strong piece. The author even used actual quotations from Rosa Parks about what she remembered and how it has elaborated or changed since then. “ ‘I'd see the bus pass every day,’ she said. ‘But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world,’ ” the author wrote in the text and because he used actual citations of her memory he gained credibility. By using historical facts and a first-hand account of the occurrences in the Montgomery City bus, the author of the text “The Story Behind the Bus” gained credibility he needed for his writing to be considered non-fiction and accurate. The author used very little of his personal opinion and concentrated on a very vivid retell of what happened in