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Mar 26, 2002 · James F. Blake, the Montgomery, Ala., bus driver who had Rosa Parks arrested in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, has died. He was 89. Blake died of a heart...
Mar 26, 2002 · James F. Blake, the Montgomery, Ala., bus driver who arrested Rosa Parks in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, has died. He was 89. Mr. Blake died of a heart...
Dec 1, 2017 · On December 1, 1955, a Bus Driver Had Rosa Parks Arrested—But It Wasn’t Their First Encounter. In 1955, Rosa Parks ignited a civil rights revolution by refusing to give up her seat on a bus...
- Stacy Conradt
On June 15, 1955, while driving a bus in Montgomery, Blake tried to run off the road a car driven by a black woman, Lucille Times. When she stopped to run an errand in Montgomery, he parked his bus across the street and proceeded to yell at her and they exchanged epithets and started fighting.
Nov 29, 2023 · As the bus filled up, the bus driver James Blake demanded that she and three other black passengers give up their seats. Rosa Parks alone refused.
After everyone had boarded, James Blake, the white bus driver, spotted a white passenger “standing just inside the entrance.” Blake proceeded to demand that Parks along with three other...
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Feb 28, 2007 · White History 101. Feb 28, 2007 at 12:00 am. Whatever happened to James Blake? He is probably the most famous bus driver ever. And yet when he died at age 89 in March 2002, the few papers that...
