In this activity, students listen to or read a selection describing the events of December 1, 1955. Then they read the rules that people had to follow on the bus. They label an illustration of the bus to reflect those rules. Read aloud to students a book about Rosa Parks. If you are ...
Keisha read how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in 1955 inspired the protest that became a turning point in the struggle for civil rights. "I walked with Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, " Mrs. Watson said with pride."Th...
Also in 1863 the remaining wheels on Thompson’s bus began flying off. In his newspaper there was no longer even a (R) designation next to a candidate’s name – now he used (A) for the “abolition” party. His pro-rebel propaganda took on a new urgency; in his paper that year, ...
On Tuesday, the former presidentattended his wife's memorial servicein Atlanta and listened as their daughter Amy read aloud a letter Jimmy had written Rosalynn 75 years ago when he was in the Navy. "My darling, every time I have ever been away from you, I have been thrill...
By Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jeanne Theoharis | This is the second entry of our Montgomery Bus Boycott Turns 60 Series. About two months into the Montgomery Bus Boycott, times start to become dangerous for Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family. Death