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Bus driver (1943–1999) Employer. Montgomery City Bus Lines. Known for. Bus driver defied by Rosa Parks after he ordered her to give up her seat – eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott. James Frederick Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955 ...
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 in ...
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Mar 26, 2002 · By JON THURBER. March 26, 2002 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. 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 ...
Dec 1, 2015 · Six decades ago, Rosa Parks, then 42, uttered perhaps the most famous “No” in American history and helped launch the modern civil rights movement — a struggle that many say continues today ...
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 attack ...
Nov 9, 2009 · Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions ...
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Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama for failing to give up her bus seat—so that it would be available for white passengers—when instructed to do so by the bus’s driver. Parks was arrested at a time in American history when, under Jim Crow laws, African Americans faced discrimination and segregation across ...
