Structure and Narrative: Rosa Parks' Memoir, My Story Answers

In My Story, why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955?

Which correctly describes the narration in My Story and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"?

In My Story, when Rosa Parks writes about her famous bus ride and arrest on December 1, 1955, she mostly uses a chronological text structure because she wants

Which is found in "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" but not in My Story?

Read the excerpt from My Story.Here it was, half a century after the first segregation law, and there were 50,000 African Americans in Montgomery. More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.

Read the excerpt from the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."RosaHow she sat there,the time right inside a placeso wrong it was ready.That trim name withits dream of a benchto rest on. Her sensible coat.

Read the excerpt from My StoryAnother time he went to see about extending the route of the Day Street bus. Black people in a little community on the other side of the Day Street Bridge had to walk across the bridge, about half a mile, to get to the bus. Mr. Nixon went down to the bus company to protest. He was always going down to the bus company to protest; sometimes he went by himself, sometimes he took someone with him. He himself did not ride the buses—he had his own car; but he was acting on behalf of the community. The bus company told him that as long as the people were willing to walk the half mile and then pay to ride the rest of the way downtown, they had no need to extend the bus line.

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Read the excerpt from "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."RosaHow she sat there,the time right inside a placeso wrong it was ready.

Read the excerpt from My Story.Back in the spring of 1955 a teenage girl named Claudette Colvin and an elderly woman refused to give up their seats in the middle section of a bus to white people. When the driver went to get the police, the elderly woman got off the bus, but Claudette refused to leave, saying she had already paid her dime and had no reason to move. When the police came, they dragged her from the bus and arrested her.