Educators desire to teach the learners about this author and books are an excellent way to do so. She was nicknamed the first lady of civil rights by the United States Congress.

Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help black people in America be treated fairly. Rosa Parks was a celebrated American activist and part of the civil rights movement that was known for playing a major role in the bus boycott at Montgomery.

It's a wonderful day and let us be thankful we have reached this point and we will go farther from now to greater things. Judges eventually said having separate black and white parts of buses was not allowed. The boycott was a peaceful stand against racism. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up. Rosa didn't fight alone, people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year. Rosa Parks was a radical, civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours. Rosa was a member of a civil rights group which fought for black and white people to be treated the same. The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a white person, but Rosa said no! One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full. This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets. Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat you differently.Īt that time, southern states in America, had something called ‘segregation’. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. As white violence against Black people increased after World War I, she would stay up with her. Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. Parks recounted fighting back against racism since she was a child. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. We use buses every day to go to school or into town.

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