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Sister Rosa, by the Neville Brothers

M. Rougier

Created on May 20, 2020

Oral comprehension: Sister Rosa and the fight for the Civil Rights

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Rosa Parks

mother of the Civil Rights Movement

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"Sister Rosa"

This is the title of a song by the Neville Brothers: what words do you think you are going to hear? Write them down in your notebook.

Watch the video and tick the words you heard. Cross out those you didn't hear. You can watch it twice.

move the lyrics

Listen to the song again and to put them in the right order

move the sentences

Listen to the chorus and to put them in the right order

match them to the photos

Read the sentences then

The bus driver asked Rosa Parks to give her seat to the white man.

Martin Luther King decided to react because he thought it wasn’t fair.

Rosa Parks sat down in a bus after a hard workday. She sat in the ‘colored zone’ at the back of the bus.

A white man changed the white/colored card because he wanted a seat .

But Rosa Parks refused to get up. She wanted to have the same rights as white people. She thought it wasn’t fair. The police came and gave Rosa Parks a $14 fine. They took her to prison.

There was a Bus Boycott. Black people refused to take buses. They walked and buses were empty. The Boycott was a success.

During the Segregation, black people had their own waiting rooms, hotels and theatres. They were separated from white people.

There were demonstrations against segregation and inequality. Black people wanted racial equality.

match the pieces together

Read the sentences then

… Rosa Parks was sent to jail.

In the 60s, buses were...

… many other protests against racial segregation.

Although there were White and Coloured sections…

… a fourteen dollar fine

Rosa Parks had been sitting in the coloured section of a bus when…

… segregated in most Southern states of the USA.

When the bus driver said ‘Let him have that seat'…

… segregation in public buses was lifted.

The police came and…

… she was asked to give up (= abandon) her seat to a white person.

She had to pay…

… until segregation ended.

Martin Luther King organized a bus boycott…

… Montgomery bus drivers had decided to make black people move whenever white people needed seats.

This successful non-violent movement sparked…

… Rosa Parks refused to obey him.

Some segregationists tried to resist. However…

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Rosa Parks

1913 - 2005

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama (USA). She died on October 24, 2005, in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan (USA) at the age of 92. She was a Civil Rights leader whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her bravery led to nationwide efforts to end racial segregation. Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

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