![]() “I called the company first, just like I was supposed to do,” Blake recalled in a later interview with the Washington Post. Blake got off the bus to call his supervisor. ![]() She remained seated even when Blake, invoking Montgomery’s Jim Crow laws, threatened to have her arrested. Three of the passengers moved, but Parks refused, saying she was not seated in the white section of the bus and didn’t think she should have to move. ![]() “You’d better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats,” he said. When none of the four blacks moved, Blake walked back and again asked them to move. He called back to Parks and three other black passengers sitting just behind the white section, ordering them to give up their seats and move to the back.Īlthough only one white needed a seat, all four blacks were required to move because the segregation statutes also stated that it was illegal for any black to sit in the same row as a white on a city bus. ![]() After the bus filled up, Blake noticed a white passenger standing just inside the entrance. ![]()
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