Setting - Time

My story will take place in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which is when Rosa, Martin, and Maya were all strongly involved with the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus. That was also when Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks formed a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama buses. At this time Maya Angelou was touring Europe, which is where she did a lot of studying, but in 1964 Maya came back to America, which is where she helped more with the civil rights movement. She moved to New York, but I am altering that and having her move down south to Montgomery where Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. will be.







This is the bus Rosa Parks was riding when she refused to move from her seat and was arrested. It is the No. 2857. This is an exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.












This picture was taken in 1943, and it relates
to my story because all three of my characters were highly involved with the civil rights movement. It's showing the racial segregation between blacks and whites.










This is a picture of Montgomery, Alabama in the mid 1940s. My story takes place around that time so I think it's a good relation to show what the city looked like in that time.

This picture shows what kind of cars were driven in the time my story takes place, which is mid 1950s and early 1960s.







This is a typical picture of what a woman would wear in the 1955s which is about the time my story is taking place.