ROSA PARKS
TASKS
1. Write the date and title in your books
2. DO IT NOW: Write down everything you know about Rosa Parks (in a list or mind map)
3. TASK 1 - Write if you agree or disagree with the statements below.
4. TASK 2 - Read the information on Rosa Parks
5. TASK 3 - Create a script between a journalist and Rosa Parks on the day she was arrested
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TASK 1 - WRITE IF YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE STATEMENTS BELOW
Making someone wear a yellow star to show their religion gives them a sense of freedom
Making someone sit at the back of a bus because of their race is being prejudice
Rosa Parks being arrested for not moving seats highlighted her justice
Being biased is the same as discriminating
CHALLENGE: Explain why!
ABOUT ROSA PARKS
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman who worked as a seamstress, boarded a Montgomery City bus to go home from work.
On this bus on that day, Rosa Parks began a new era in the American quest for freedom and equality.
She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon, all of the seats in the bus were filled.
When a white man entered the bus, the driver (following the standard practice of segregation) insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there.
Mrs. Parks quietly refused to give up her seat. Her action was spontaneous, although her strong sense of justice was an obvious influence.
"When I made that decision," she said later, “I knew that I had the strength of my ancestors with me.”
She was arrested and convicted of breaking the laws of segregation, known as “Jim Crow laws.”
Mrs. Parks appealed her conviction and so challenged the laws of segregation.