This Week in History

Article By Ananya Nayar, Website edited by Misaki Tomiyama

On December 1st 1955, African American activist Rosa Parks is jailed for not giving up her seat on a public bus to a middle-aged white man. She said that she was the ‘mother of the civil rights amendment’ therefore there is no reason for her to respect ‘white supremacy.’ This statement and decision by the police set forward a bus boycott that lasted over a year against the ideology that people of colour are obligated to respect and give up privileges to white people.

December 6th, 1884, workers and sculptures completed the statue outside the White House, where the President of the USA lives in Washington.

If we go back to exactly 79 years ago, Pearl Harbor was bombed. On the 7th December 1941, a dive bomber bearing the ‘Rising Sun of Japan’ on their wings descended from the planes and bombed large areas of Hawaii. More than 360 other Japanese warplanes followed after, peltering the land in bombs in an aggressive, violent scene. This caused American’s to officially fight in the combat of World War 2.