Rosa+Parks

=Rosa Parks= by Viante and Ed

Important Dates Born:
She was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She went to a separate school for black children. She picked cotton when she was six years old to help her family get money. Her mother was a teacher and taught Rosa in a one room school house with 50 other students. She wondered why white people and black people had to drink out of diffrent water fountains. She also wondered why white people and black people had to sit In diffrent seats on a bus. She helped new laws be created so black people could be treated the same as white people. . She held a boycott with Dr.King. Rosa Parks died October 24,,2005

Why is this person famous?
She would never give up on anything she did. She wouldn't give up her seat on the bus to a white person. She was arrested and put in jail for what she believed in. After that the black people in her town boycotted the bus. They decided to walk instead. This made the bus companies lose lots of money so they started to let black people sit wherever they wanted to on a bus. She made rights for blacks and whites to sit anywhere they wanted.

Contributions
Rosa Parks got Arrested cause she didn't give up her bus seat to a white man on December 1,1955

Interesting Facts
She is called Mother of the Civil Rights. When she was in the eleventh grade she married Raymond Parks.