About+Rosa+Parks!

Essential Question: (Who is Rosa Parks and how did she change how we live today?)
 * Rosa parks was an African American who was born on February 4, 1913.
 * She boarded onto the bus "Cleveland Avenue" and realized it was the same bus driver who had left her stand out in the rain.
 * Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white person when all the seats had been taken by whites in the front of the bus.
 * She didn't obey the rules or law while she was on the bus.
 * Rosa Parks was arrested for disorderly conduct amongst whites.
 * Rosa pleaded guilty during her trial in court. Then she had been sent to prison that day and bailed out that evening on December 2, 1955.
 * The boycott had lasted for more than a year.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Later the supreme court ended the boycott because blacks had refused to ride buses and that lead the bus transit to suffer.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They decided to lift segregation because it was unconstitutional.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The boycot started on December 5, 1955 and ended on December 20, 1956, so this lasted a total of 382 days.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Once the boycott ended it lead to other protests.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Montgomery Bus Boycott was an inspiration of the boycott in South Africa the Alexandria, Eastern Cape.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott change in the south?)
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This led to tragedies such as churches had been burned to the ground and they were attacked by the whites.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Martin Luther King Jr's and E.D. Nixon's houses had been bombed on January 30, 1956.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rosa Parks was the hero for the boycott, she later lost her job and moved to Detroit.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">She still believed in what she was fighting for the Civil Rights Movement.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Parks had still continued to be involved in the National Association Advancement of Colored People.