Thursday, March 24, 2011

Mini-Biography - Rosa Parks

1. When was she born? Where? February 4th, 1913 at Tuskegee, Alabama
2. When does the Civil Rights Movement unofficialy start? How did Rosa Parks ignite this? Blacks were very tired of the discriminating, but what really set it off was the murder of Emmett Till.
3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Under what charge? She was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white woman.
 4. Where did she go to school? What did she study to become? She was home-schooled until the age of 11, then she enrolled at Montgomery Industrial School for girls. She didnt go to college til she graduated high school. She began work and was a housekeeper for a white woman.
5. What is the NAACP? The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  
6. When did she die? How? October 24th, 2005. She was diagnosed with progressive dementia.
7. Find an image.

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