Summary
Daniel covers Rosa Parks's 1955 act of defiance on a Montgomery bus, the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott that followed, and her role as a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement. Includes context about segregation laws and her earlier activism.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat helped spark the modern Civil Rights Movement.
- What were the segregation laws that required Parks to give up her seat?
- How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott work? Why was it effective?
- Why is Parks sometimes called "the mother of the Civil Rights Movement"?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: civil disobedience, boycott, segregation, Civil Rights Movement, protest, Montgomery, NAACP.
Try it: Write a newspaper headline and first paragraph about the day of Rosa Parks's arrest as if you were a reporter.