Black History Month-Rosa Parks Assignment

1. Rosa Parks
1913-2005
Black History
Month

2.  The boycott continued for over a
year. It eventually took the United
States Supreme Court to end the
boycott.
Rosa Parks was
 On November 13, 1956 the Court
nationally recognized as declared that Alabama's state and
the "mother of the
modern day civil rights local laws requiring segregation
movement" in America.
Her refusal to surrender
on buses were illegal.
her seat to a white male
passenger on a  On December 20th federal
Montgomery, Alabama injunctions were served on the
bus, December 1, 1955,
triggered a boycott for city and bus
African Americans to
not use the bus line.

3.  She was the secretary to the
president of the NAACP (National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People).
“I would like to  "I would like to be known as a
be remembered person who is concerned about
as a person who
wanted to be freedom and equality and justice
free... so other and prosperity for all people."
people would be
also free.” - Rosa -Rosa Parks
Parks

4. Rosa Parks Assignment
 How your life could be different, if Rosa Parks
hadn’t refused to surrender her seat on the bus?
-You should have a minimum of 5 paragraphs,
including the following:
A. Introduction-with topic sentence
B. Body- with supporting details
C. Closing- summarizing your main idea