Yr 9: Rights and Freedoms – Research and Drafting Scaffold

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1. Provide a brief
 Rosa Parks Rosa Parks born February 4, 1913, died October Britannica
24, 2005, American civil rights activist whose
overview of who  Black people had a refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus
your chosen separate spot at back of
person is. precipitated the Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa
bus separated from the Parks story claimed that she had refused to give
2. How did your white. up her bus seat because she was tired rather
chosen individual than because she was protesting unfair
challenge social
 Rosa parks refused to get treatment.
norms and up out of seat for white
contribute to man and was told off by
affecting change/s the bus driver but still
in society?
refused.

In 1955 Rosa Parks launched the Montgomery 1913-2005 International civil rights (walk
3. Why and how were Bus Boycott invigorated the struggle for racial
the chosen
equality when she refused to give up her bus
of fame) Rosa parks
person’s rights
denied prior to the seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
movement? This sparked the Montgomery bus boycott
which was a 13-month mass protest that
4. What action/s did ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
your activist take segregation on public buses is
to resolve the
injustices they unconstitutional.
faced?
In the wake of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
E.g. What Rosa Parks lost her tailoring job and received
impacts/challenges death threats. She and her family moved to
did they face
Detroit, Michigan in 1957. Although she
during their
movement? How remained an active member of the NAACP and
did they worked for Congressman John Conyers to
demonstrate (1965-1988) helping the homeless find housing.
resilience and
persistence?
 As for the rest of black people, they stopped
catching buses which made public transport run
out of business. White people wanted black
5. How did your people to catch the bus so the whites didn’t
activist help solve have to find another transport around. White
the issues faced people were angry with black people and
by the affected
wanted them to ride on the buses again. Some
group of people?
black people lost their jobs because they were
refusing to catch the bus. Summer came and
buses stopped running because there weren’t
enough people to pay and ride the bus.
After Rosa parks arrest, she motivated people https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-
6. Summarise how like Martin Luther King Jr. When he heard her explained/civil-rights-leaders/rosa-parks#:~:text=As
your civil rights story, standing up for herself to a white man, he %20a%20result%20of%20her,Gayle.
activist decided to make change. Martin led black
contributed to the people to greatness because Rosa parks
change. couldn’t lead due to not having confidence and
knowledge to make a big change by herself, so
7. You may like to Martin stepped in and lead. After the buses
refer to how they stopped running, all the black people walked,
have shaped the caught or rode with friends or taxis to avoid
modern world or catching the bus. Eventually the government let
what further work them sit anywhere on the bus because the
needs to be done government took in consideration of how white
in this area. and black people are treated differently and
held a case at the Alabama court system and
E.g. An won the case for segregation on public buses. If
inspirational call to Rosa parks never stood up to the white man,
action. black people would still be disrespected to this
day and the world would be totally different.
These events during the bus boycotts was
terrible during the time, and nothing was ever
going to be better if she didn’t do anything.
Conclusion-

Rosa Parks was one of the most outstanding

females to end segregation. She helped the
other black people have more confidence in
themselves to stand up. She inspired people like
Martin Luther King Jr. she was also inspired by
Emmitt Till’s death. She wanted to tell people
that you can fight for rights and never give up.
She was very helpful during the time of bus
boycotts. She only got arrested because she
refused to give up for a white man. Rosa Parks
was very successful in the end and changed the
world for us today and for the future.