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Rosa Parks The Woman Who Changed a Nation By Kira Albin, interview conducted in 1996 Photos courtesy of Monica Morgan Photography and ZondervanPublishingHouse When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man forty years ago on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. At least that's how the event has been retold countless times and recorded in our history ...

MLK Day on the Net Holidays on the Net Additional Holiday Celebrations peo ples 1997 Zoe Levenglick-Volpe (age 11) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an established rule in the American south (at that ...

Culture & Change Home Women Who Changed History Home Rosa Parks, The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement, describes her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helps students understand the importance of every individual citizen in a democracy. Read through her story and then express how you would feel if you were in her situation. (Vocabulary words are in bold.) For Grades 7-8 ...

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Biography and interview with Rosa Parks.

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