Dates and Places
Rosa Parks was born on September 11, 1912 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
She is still alive.
Rosa Parks had a hard childhood.
When she was two her father moved out on their family.
The Ku Klux Klan burned her school down twice.
In the south people had to obey the laws of segregation. Black people didn't have as many rights as white people did.
On December 1, 1955 a bus driver ordered Rosa, who was black, to give up her bus seat to a white man. She refused to give up her seat. She was arrested, fined and sent to jail.
This started the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott lasted 382 days.
During the protest blacks started to walk to work instead of take the bus. This hurt the bus company.
Rosa has continued to work for the rights of all people since then.
| Rosa Parks, Aquila Primary Center, www.slpschools.org, . |
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King, David. First Facts About American Heroes. 1996.
Rosa Parks, http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/Panaggio/rosa%20parks%20by%20kids.html, 2-2-2002.
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