ROSA PARKS

(1913- 2005)
One day in 1955, Rosa
Parks refused to give up
her seat on a bus to a
white man in
Montgomery, Alabama.

For this reason she went

to prison but she
changed the history.
In the USA, in that period, it was legal to discriminate against
black people.
Rosa Parks was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama.
Segregation, or separation of groups of people, was the way of
life in many states.
Rosa couldn’t attend the “whites only” school.
She attended a one room schoolhouse with no windows, desks
or books.
Cinemas, restaurants and water fountains were separated and
unequal.
And on the bus black people had to sit in the back of the bus
and stand if a white person needed a seat.
Years later, Rosa acted bravely when she refused to give up her
seat on a city bus.
And things started to change for Afro-American people.