ROSA PARKS BY: Marina Rodríguez Hidalgo And Marina López Chamosa 3ºC

ROSA PARKS She was born in 1913, the 4 th of February, Alabama, and was the ”Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement ”.

Since Rosa Parks was a little girl she lived racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. Both her grandparents were former slaves and strong advocates for racial equality. In her city, Alabama, it was a new school building a bus transportation for white students while the black students walked to the one-room schoolhouse often lacking adequate school supplies.

Rosa married with a barber named Raymond Parks who was an member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Rosa parks has a soon that she became actively involved in civil rights

One day Rosa was waiting for the bus in her city, Alabama. The bus is distributed like this: In the middle and in the biggining of the bus only can were siting the white people, and in the end of the bus the black people. When a white person come and reclamated her sit but Rosa doesn't move and the driver called the police

Martin Luther King was a black man that heard the history of Rosa Parks and he start to defended the right of black people. They, the black people, were tired and start to figth and they decided make a boycott.

The boycott start a monday 5 of december in 1955 and it lasted 381 days

Protesters continued fight and finaly they got that the black and white people African- American have the same rights now