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Host Today we are presenting the next episode of American history – the Montgomery bus boycott. Listen to our expert.
Speaker Rosa Parks was a young black woman who worked in a shop in Montgomery. The shop was far away from her home so she couldn’t walk there. She didn’t have a car so every day she took a bus to and from her work. She worked hard and at the end of the day she was very tired. One day in December 1955 Rosa Parks got on the bus and sat in a seat at the front. More and more people got on the bus.
Soon there were no more seats. White people had to stand. The driver stopped the bus and asked Rosa to give up her seat to a white person. Rosa refused because she was very tired and her feet hurt. So the driver called the police and Rosa was arrested and put in jail.
The arrest of Rosa made black people in Montgomery very angry. Black leaders turned to Martin Luther King, who was then the minister of a church in Montgomery, Alabama. They asked him what to do. They wanted to end segregation on Montgomery’s buses but how could they protest?
The leaders met in Martin Luther King’s church. Martin said that black people should boycott buses in Montgomery. Next morning buses in Montgomery were empty. Black people walked to work or stayed at home. They could lose their jobs but they didn’t give up.
The bus boycott lasted for a year. Many black people were arrested. The bus company lost money but it didn’t change its policy. The boycott leaders took their case to a judge. And on 20 December 1956, the judge said that segregation in buses was against the law. The boycott was successful!
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Unit 9

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   1 It takes Jake 12 minutes to go to school by tram.
   
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      It takes Sarah 15 minutes to go to the cinema by taxi.
      
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      It takes Mick 1 hour to go to Liverpool by train.
      
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      It takes Kevin 45 minutes to go to work by underground.
      
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      It takes Tom 2 hours to go to Madrid by plane.
      
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      It takes Robbie 8 hours to go to France by boat.
      
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      It takes Laura 15 minutes to go the beach by motorbike.
      
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   1 I never walk to school.
   

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   My mum gave me a lift to town this morning.
   
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   We took a taxi to the cinema.
   
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   My dad went to work by car this morning.
   
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   David sometimes goes to school by bike.
   
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   Harriet went to work by bus yesterday.
   

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