Rosa Parks, Civil Rights icon
Introduction
Rosa
Parks, the soft-spoken icon of the U.S. civil rights
movement, died on October 31, 2005 at her home in
Detroit, Michigan, at age 92. In 1955 the African-American
seamstress refused to surrender her bus seat to a
white man in Montgomery, Alabama, spurring civil rights
supporters to boycott city buses.
Visit this site 
Read
the story about Rosa Parks and answer the following
questions.
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On December 1, 1955,
in Montgomery, Alabama, what happened on the
bus? |
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 Why
was this forbidden?
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What
happened to Rosa Parks? |
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What
did all Black people decide to do then? |
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2/3
What was Rosa Park’s
job? |
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What political group
was she involved in? |
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3/3
Who became the leader of
the boycott? |
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What kind of
reaction did he claim? What was the expression
he used?
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What
was the ultimate consequence of the boycott? |
How
long did the boycott last? |
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How is Rosa Parks often called because of this
boycott? |
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More activities
History
of Civil Rights : you will find information
on this page. Click
here
Map
of the US
Now visit this
site 
Watch a video about Rosa Parks and the civil rights
movement and write a summary of it.
Describe the following picture of Rosa
Parks on the MSN Encarta website.
Now you can learn and sing, We
shall overcome. Here
are the lyrics :
We
shall overcome
1.
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
CHORUS:
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day
2.
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand some day
CHORUS
3.
We shall all be free
We shall all be free
We shall all be free some day
CHORUS
4.
We are not afraid
We are not afraid
We are not afraid some day
CHORUS
5.
We are not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone some day
CHORUS
6.
The whole wide world around
The whole wide world around
The whole wide world around some day
CHORUS
7.
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day
CHORUS
Source
:Click
here
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We
shall overcome :
music to be heard by
clicking here on MSN Encarta
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