Rosa Parks

True or False: Rosa Parks helped change the laws in America.

• True

• False

Because of Rosa Parks' actions, everyone in America has . . .

• no rights

• some rights

• equal rights

Rosa Parks was born in 1913 in the state of ________________.

• Mississippi

• Alabama

• Tennessee

• Florida

Rosa Parks was born during a time of SEPARATING or KEEPING APART blacks and whites which was called ______________________.

• separating

• boycotting

• segregation

• interruption

Rosa Parks went to school with . . .

• only white students

• only black students

• both black students and white students

• no one - she was all alone

True or False: Whites and Blacks went to the same schools together.

• True

• False

After Rosa Parks graduated from high school, she went to work as a seamstress in a department store to help . . .

• earn money for college

• earn money for her husband

• earn money to help her family

Rosa Parks became famous when she refused to give up her seat she was sitting in on a bus to a . . .

• white lady

• white man

• black lady

• black man

The law in Alabama during that time stated that . . .

• only black women had to give up their seats to black men

• only black men had to give up their seats to black women

• only black people had to give up their seats if a white person wanted to sit down

• only white people had to give up their seats if a black person wanted to sit down

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus because she felt she had __________________________ and whites were not better than her because she was black.

• authority

• dignity

• shame

• sadness