ROSA PARKS PRESENTATION

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1. School for black children

2. December 1955

3. Boycott of the buses

4. Campaign for equal rights

5. The presidential medal

School for black children

Rosa Parks had to walk miles to go to a school for black children white students had a school bus

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December 1955

She refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus and the police arrested her.

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Boycott of the buses

Martin Luther King organised a boycott of the buses and black people refused to use the buses

Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King

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Rosa continued to campaign for equal rights for African Americans.Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement

The presidential medal

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In 1996 Clinton awarded her with the presidential medal of freedom Rosa Parks named as one of the 20 most influential people of the 20th century.

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Rosa Parks had to walk miles to go to a school for black children white students had a school bus

She refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus and the police arrested her.

Martin Luther King organised a boycott of the buses and black people refused to use the buses

Rosa continued to campaign for equal rights for african americans Rosa Parks became a symbol of the civil rights movement

In 1996 Clinton awarded her with the presidential medal of freedom Rosa Parks named as one of the 20 most influential people of the 20th century.

INDEX

1. 1955 Rosa Parks

2. Alabama

3. The bus driver

4. Bus Boycott

5. The us supreme Court

1955 Rosa Parks

In 1955, Rosa Parks was going back home after a long day of works. She lived in Montgomery; Alabama and she was on a bus.

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Alabama

At that time, buses in Alabama were segregated: black people had to sit at the back. If a white person wanted to sit and white seats were full, a black one had to give up his or her seat.

Rosa Parks

Quotes From Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks

The bus driver

The bus driver told Rosa to stand up and give her seat to a white man, she refused and she was arrested.

She was found guilty, and she had to pay $14. From that moment on, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began. It was a civil protest against racial segregation.

the us supreme court

In 1956, the US supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal. Rosa Parks became involved in politics, and she was called “The mother of the civil rights movement”.

She died in 2005.