Rosa Parks

Examples of Rosa Parks in the following topics:

• Montgomery and Protests

  • At the time, Colvin was an active member in the NAACP Youth Council, a group to which Rosa Parks served as adviser.
  • Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession and also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
  • The final choice was Rosa Parks, the elected secretary of the Montgomery NAACP and Nixon had been her boss.
  • Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H.
  • Describe the roles of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other protesters in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Segregation

  • ., Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., among others) primarily during the period from the end of World War II through the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as supported by President Lyndon B.
  • Examples are holding sit-ins at all-white diners, or the widely publicized refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.

• Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

  • Key events in the Civil Rights Movement included: the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956), which began when Rosa Parks, a NAACP secretary, was arrested when she refused to cede her public bus seat to a white passenger; the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School (1957); the Selma to Montgomery marches, also known as Bloody Sunday and the two marches that followed, were marches and protests held in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement which sought to secure voting rights for African-Americans.

• Ida B. Wells

  • Wells refused to give up her seat, 71 years before the activist Rosa Parks showed similar resistance on a bus.

• Multiple Intelligences

  • Cunningham's students will have many options for creating something chat can be included in their portfolios.Students will have the option to write letters to members of the community who were teenagers during the Civil Rights Movement, asking them to share their memories and experiences about life during the time period.Students may work in teams to prepare speeches based on period issues for their fellow classmates.Students may consult with the school's Media Specialist or more knowledgeable other to find resources for the class, including popular music from the time period.They may also learn and share dances that were popular during the 1950's and 1960's.If they choose, students may include music in the plays they write and act out for their classmates.With the assistance of the Art instructor, students may opt to work together to create a mural that represents key figures of the Civil Rights Movement such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., with accompanying biographical information about each leader.Students may also create a map representing key events.Students may also work in groups to prepare short plays to enact for the class based on the readings and what they learn from the guest speakers.Afterwards, Mrs.

• Women of the Civil Rights Movement

  • She worked alongside some of the most famous civil rights leaders and mentored many emerging activists of the time, such as Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks, and Bob Moses.

• The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

  • The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v.

• The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

  • Board of Education in 1954; Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955-1956; and the desegregation of Little Rock in 1957) expanded into other forms of protest in the 1960s.

• Washington and DuBois

  • Wells refused to give up her seat, 71 years before the activist Rosa Parks showed similar resistance on a bus.

• References

  • Santa Rosa, CA: Foundation for Critical Thinking.