Montgomery (October 26, 2005) – Rosa Parks, one of the key figure of the American Civil Rights movement, passed away this week at the age of 92. She was famous for her refusal to yield a bus seat to a white man in the Deep South Montgomerry in 1955. Most people however forgot that without the deliberate action of the presumably white bus driver, the incident would not have happened and the history of the American Civil Rights Movement would not be as we know it today. At that time, black people were allowed to sit only in the back of the bus. On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks took a seat in the middle of the bus and refused to obey the order of the bus driver to move back to make seats for whites. The bus driver did not relent and called police. Mrs. Parks was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted. This incident triggered the start of the American Civil Rights movement and the rest was history. The bus driver remained anonymous for the next 50 years, unaware of his significant place in American history. Things might change shortly, because according to unconfirmed reports from sources close to Paramount Pictures, Oliver Stone, the famous but controversial filmmaker, has been tracking down this bus driver for the last several months. Mr. Stone wants to make a movie of the Montgomerry bus incident from this man’s perspective.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Bus driver in 1955 Rosa Parks incident remains mysterious
Montgomery (October 26, 2005) – Rosa Parks, one of the key figure of the American Civil Rights movement, passed away this week at the age of 92. She was famous for her refusal to yield a bus seat to a white man in the Deep South Montgomerry in 1955. Most people however forgot that without the deliberate action of the presumably white bus driver, the incident would not have happened and the history of the American Civil Rights Movement would not be as we know it today. At that time, black people were allowed to sit only in the back of the bus. On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks took a seat in the middle of the bus and refused to obey the order of the bus driver to move back to make seats for whites. The bus driver did not relent and called police. Mrs. Parks was subsequently arrested, tried and convicted. This incident triggered the start of the American Civil Rights movement and the rest was history. The bus driver remained anonymous for the next 50 years, unaware of his significant place in American history. Things might change shortly, because according to unconfirmed reports from sources close to Paramount Pictures, Oliver Stone, the famous but controversial filmmaker, has been tracking down this bus driver for the last several months. Mr. Stone wants to make a movie of the Montgomerry bus incident from this man’s perspective.
