Civil Rights: Mrs. Rosa Parks

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?

Civil Rights and Segregation: Separate but Equal

We have begun studying part of our state’s history, the Civil Rights Movement. One main idea that we need to understand is the concept of segregation. Segregation is when two groups are separated because they are different. In the South the races were segregated. Race means the color of your skin. We learned about this idea yesterday, when we discussed Ruby Bridge, the first black girl to attend an all white school in New Orleans.

Below, is a Slide Share with pictures of the South during segregation. The law was called, Separate but Equal. But, as you can see in the pictures, things were not equal between black and white citizens.