As we continue our study on the Civil Rights Movement, we move away from North Carolina and head south west to the state of Alabama.

Just like in North Carolina, citizens in Alabama fought to end segregation by sitting down, and then by refusing to sit… ok this is getting confusing! Check out the life of Rosa Parks below, the woman who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Leave a comment below:

1. Why was it hard for Mrs. Parks to go to school?

2. What is a boycott?