ROSA PARKS
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Reading Comprehension/ Biography/ U.S. History ... Rosa Parks was born February 4 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. She spent her childhood in Alabama. ...
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ROSA PARKS Page 1Reading Comprehension/ Biography/ U.S. History Name__________________________________ Date______________ 2005abcteach.com ROSA PARKS Rosa Parks was born February 4 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama. She spent her childhood in Alabama. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls which was a private school. Later she worked as a seamstress in Montgomery. Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement" and one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. In the early 1950s the bus system in Montgomery as in many parts of the United States was segregated. Blacks who were the majority of the bus riders were required to board the bus at the front buy their tickets and then reboard the bus in the back. Sometimes they werent able to get on the bus again before it drove away. They were not allowed to sit in the front of the bus which often made it difficult to get off at the right stop. Even if they were sitting in the black section they were still required to give their seats up to white passengers if the white section was full. Black passengers were not even allowed to sit across from white passengers. In December of 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a citybus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She wastried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the bus system. The boycott introduced the country to a clergyman named Martin Luther King Jr. who gained national prominence leading the protest with the words: There comes a time that people get tired. Eventually the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision outlawing segregation on city buses. In December 1956 Montgomerys public transportation system was legally integrated. Over the next four decades Rosa Parks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle. This pioneer in the struggle for rac ...
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