For this activity, please consider the problem that black men and women faced in America at this time.
On your blog, describe the problem. What did Rosa Parks do about the problem? How did other people react?
On the 1st of December 1955 Rosa Parks was extremely tired of how coloured people where getting treated. At the time seats at the front where reserved for white people and the seats at the back were for the black people. After a long day at work Rosa Parks boarded onto the bus and took a seat. The bus filled u very quickly and a white man came on and the bus driver told the African American passengers to give up their seats to him because he was white but Rosa disobeyed him and refused to do as he said. In the end Rosa was arrested by the police because of breaking segregation laws. Rosa refused to pay and argued that the law was wrong. And on the 13th November 1956 the supreme court that Alabama racial segregation weren't valid and should not be recognised
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Hi Summer,
ReplyDeleteYou have retold the story about Rosa Parks really well and have described in detail what happened. How did it make you feel learning about this story? How do you think the other people on the bus would have felt when this was happening too? Imagine if you were on the bus at the time, how would you have felt?
I really enjoyed reading this post. It really made me think about what it must’ve been like in the 1950s and 1960s compared to what it is like now.
I am looking forward to your reply.
Leisha
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