Map of rosa parks life biography
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Middle School Students Make a New Road Map for Rosa Parks
Afton, Virginia school teacher Katrien Vance wrote to share her experiences using the documentary film The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks in the classroom. Based on the bestselling biography of the same name by Jeanne Theoharis, the film helps students understand the lifetime of activism that Rosa Parks embodied, which is too often overshadowed bygd her refusal to change seats on a bus in Montgomery. Instead, using the film, Vance&#;s students created a road map that better illustrates the rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
By Katrien Vance
This week I used the movie The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and one of the lessons from the teaching guide with my seventh and eighth graders.
Every year, my school pays particular attention to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We are a small, rural, private, pre-K through eighth-grade school in Afton, Virginia.
Each year, I choose a different focus with my students. Las
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In , she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
At that time, white people and black people were kept apart in some American states.
Her actions changed American history forever.
Watch: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
We use buses every day to go to school or into town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives.
Let's go to America, in , to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama.
There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important.
Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat you differently.
At that time, southern states in amerika, had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people of different skin colours had different school
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Places of Rosa Parks
2. Hotel Theresa
During Parks’s first year with the Montgomery NAACP, she had gathered accounts of racially motivated crimes throughout Alabama, including sexual assaults, police brutality, and unsolved murders. In the autumn of , the Montgomery NAACP dispatched Parks to investigate the violent abduction and sexual assault of Mrs. Recy Taylor.
African Americans across the country demanded justice and Parks quickly gathered the support of local activists, labor unions, African American organizations, and women’s groups to form the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy November 25, , activists called an emergency meeting to order at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City. The Hotel Theresa was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in The meeting was organized to bring national attention to Taylor’s case and demand legal action. To make up for inaction by state authorities, the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor tran