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This article provides the reader with five examples of civil disobedience. I think most people think about Rosa Parks and Gandhi when they think about civil disobedience but there's a long history, that continues today, of people practicing this method. It's important to recognize how powerful it can be. Gandhi's "Salt March" and industrial workers' sit-ins are two examples shared in this article. Civil disobedience is deeply woven into many cultures, not just our own. Civil disobedience can be expressed by the sheer presence of someone in a place that they don't belong, which we saw with Ms. Parks, which was also the case with the students who sat at the lunch counter and demanded to be served.

This website presents a brief of overview of Rosa Parks historical arrest. During the civil rights movement Ms. Parks chose to sit in a seat on the bus that was not designated for black people. She chose to practice civil disobedience and assert what she felt was her right to be seated wherever she pleased. This website provides another image related to the initial class image, it is an image of her being booked for the crime that she committed. There is a lot to the story and this website gives information about what happened after that moment on the bus.

This site is rather short and to the point. Francisca Stewart summarizes what happened on the bus and how civil disobedience was used to make change. She also shared what happened in the years to follow, including the new rules that allowed both blacks and whites to sit where they chose. This site is useful to get a quick understanding of what the picture is about.

This site depicts how Rosa turned the focus of the civil rights movement from court to civil disobedience. People started to protest more and boycott buses or other places that showed discrimination. The boycotting eventually led to federal courts ruling that segregation laws were unconstitutional.

This website retraces the events of the day as pictured in the photograph. Not only does it go over the event in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, but it also discusses the bus strike of 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Details are also provided of the organization behind the strike, Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), along with a brief explanation of Dr. Martin Luther King's and Ralph Abernathy's involvement. There is also a short summary of the resulting court decision on segregated busing in 1956, along with an example of the sort of pamphlets that were circulated at the time to announce the bus strike back in 1955. This site serves to provide not only a brief, yet well rounded explanation of this photo's history, but gives us an understanding of who was behind the strike as well as what resulted from their effort.

Particularly in the beginning of this website's piece, what is special about this webpage is the amount of background information that is given. When you visit this site you are able to read and learn about the ongoing struggle that the Black community in America faced, well before Rosa Parks was arrest on December 1st, 1955. What was interesting to discover in this encyclopedia entry was that Ms. Parks was not the first person to be arrested for not giving up their seat because of their race. What this entry does for our understanding and appreciation of the photograph is that we are provided a concise yet detailed account of the events surrounding the bus strike, the ruling of segregated buses in 1956, as well as history of before Park's arrest. This information helps us understand that there is much more the photograph that what may have previously understood.

This website provides more context and background to the infamous moment on the Montgomery bus captured in the initial image shown. The lore states that Parks refused to give up the seat because her feet were tired after a long day of working but in reality, she was aware of plans of local activists to challenge the bus laws. Her arrest propelled the civil rights movement forward and resulted in a year long bus boycott. This website presents Rosa Parks angle differently than most others tend to. It's interesting to see her described as a part of the movement as opposed to someone who just happened to be somewhere.

This website talks about Rosa Parks humble beginnings ans how there were other supporters behind her who were willing to risk their lives to defending the cause. Some of these supporters were 'white.' Clifford and Virginia Durr, encouraged Rosa Parks to go to school and sponsored the long stay. This was the basis for learning who to strategically protest without being or using violence. Then, the real meaning is that Rosa Parks was the front person for other people who believe in equality, and the freedom of other. Rosa Parks endured a great deal of problems for her action, some of them legal, Rosa Parks violated the 'white law of segregation", but it was well worth it. The world benefited.

I chose to step away from Rosa and focus on Martin Luther King, as he played an important role in the civil rights movement. Dr. King actually became the spokesman for what happened that day on the bus. He used his powerful motivational skills to speak out against segregation during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On my search to discover other facts about Park's I came across, that she had a prior encounter with James Blake the bus driver who demanded Mrs. Park's to give up her seat. Rosa Parks was removed from Blake's bus in 1943 after she refused to enter through the back of the bus after paying in the front. Then in 1957, weeks after her arrest Mrs. Parks lost her job because of the boycott, although personnel of the department store said it was not so. Rosa Park's and her family was then forced to moved from Montgomery Alabama, to Detroit Michigan after receiving death threats, and her husband being forced to quit his job due to the fact that his wife was the main cause of the boycott. In 2005 on the 1st of December Rosa Park's passed in Detroit. Transportation authorities in New York City, Washington, D.C. and other cities in the US symbolically left the seats behind bus drivers empty to commemorate Parks' act of civil disobedience. This site is useful in exploring this week's image because it shows that Mrs. Park's decision to not give up her seat was based on prior facts of ill-treatment. This site also paints how change can affect societal norms, towards what is initially right for all. Heidi Beckles