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Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in
Tuskegee, Alabama. Her dad was a carpenter and her mom was a
teacher. She moved to Pine Level and was raised on
her grandparents farm. She was homeschooled until age 11 and then
went to the Industrious School for Girls in Montgomery.
She had to drop out of school to take care of her sick grandmother.
Childhood
Rosa was married and lived in Montgomery. She worked at the Montgomery Fair
Department Store as a seamstress. She rode to work each day on the city bus.
Adulthood
Rosa lived during the time of the Jim Crow Laws. These were different laws that segregated black and
whites. They used different restrooms. They had different entrances to stores and theatres. They had different drinking fountains. They went to different schools The Jim Crow laws allowed white people to be
treated better than blacks and receive better services and education.
Black people were called colored people.
Jim Crow LawsWHITES COLORED
One day, in December of 1955, Rosa was
riding home from work on the bus. The bus was crowded and there were no more
seats in the front/white section of the bus. Rosa was told by the driver to get out of her
seat and give it to a white man. Rosa refused to give up her seat. She was arrested.
The Big Event
The black community was very upset over
what happened to Rosa Parks. They got together and decided to boycott
(stop riding) the city buses. They wanted to let the city know it was not
O.K. to treat black people as less than white people.
The boycott lasted for almost a year. In December 1956 the bus company ended its
policy of segregation.
Result
The bus boycott in Montgomery led to the
Supreme Court ruling that segregation in public transportation was unconstitutional. This means that they said it was not fair for blacks to be treated differently than whites on buses.
The Montgomery bus boycott also led to many other protests.
Eventually the Supreme Court passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act which said blacks and whites were equal and should be treated that way.
Impact
EQUALITY
Our lives our different today because of Rosa
Parks and the Civil Rights movement. We would not all be here in school together. We would not be able to be friends and hang
out together. Black people would not be treated fairly. Black people would not be able to get a good
education or job. President Obama would not be our President.
Our lives today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15p5HB-FpjI&feature=player_embedded
Click on this video to see how Rosa Parks impacted the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2KBh9JPj0&feature=player_embedded#t=152
To hear Rosa Parks describe the incident in her own words….