The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks

In 1919 terror from the KKK was on the rise because

• African Americans were demanding voting rights

• African Americans had been integrated into White schools

• African American soldiers who fought in WWI were returning and demanding equal rights

• African Americans were refusing to give up their seats on the bus

Rosa Parks Great Grandfather was

• a slave married to a house servant on a plantation

• a white plantation owner married to a black house servant

• an overseer on a plantation married to a house servant

• a freed slave married to a white house servant on a plantation

Rosa Park's Grandfather

• lived in constant fear of white people and kept hidden from them

• got along with many of the white people of the South

• had a deep hatred of white people and kept a shotgun by his side at night

• was killed by the overseer on the plantation

Rosa Parks was from

• Alabama

• Cleveland

• Detroit

• Mississippi

In the South, African Americans

• weren't allowed to attend school

• only went to school until 6th grade

• only went to school until 9th grade

• went to school with everyone else

Once while walking home with her brother, Rosa was threatened by a white boy so she

• Ran home and got her grandfather's gun

• had to watch while her brother was beat up

• made friends with him by showing him what they had in common

• picked up a brick and dared the boy to try and beat her up

When Rosa Parks grandmother heard about the altercation between her and the white boy she

• praised her for making friends with him

• praised her for standing up to him

• told her she was going to get lynched before she was 20

• sent her to live with her Aunt to protect her from the KKK

The 1st time Rosa Parks tried to register to vote

• she was kicked off the bus

• she made a copy of her answers but never got her certificate in the mail

• she was told she failed

• she never got her certificate in the mail

The 2nd time Rosa Parks tried to register to vote

• she was kicked off the bus

• she made a copy of her answers and eventually got her certificate in the mail

• she was told she failed

• she never got her certificate in the mail

The 3rd time Rosa Parks tried to register to vote

• she was kicked off the bus

• she made a copy of her answers and eventually got her certificate in the mail

• she was told she failed

• she never got her certificate in the mail