1). Prepare 4-7 questions for text comprehension that are central to the text and answer them in your own words (approx 300-400 words)
Who was Rosa Parks?
Rosa Parks, often called the “the mother of movement”, was a black civil rights activist. She is best known for refusing to relinquish her seat on dec. 1, 1955, to a white person on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama Bus in the colored section, after the whites-only section was filled. Back then, there were a lot of laws (“The Jim Crow Laws”) that enforced racial segregation and one of them required black people and white people to sit in certain sections of the bus. If the whites-only section was filled then a black person had to stand up to let the white person sit down. Black people who sought to defy these laws, such as Rosa Parks, were arrested.
What followed after Rosa Park’s arrest and what was the result?
A few days after, Rosa Parks went to court. She was found guilty of violating the state segregation law and was fined $10 plus a $4 court fee, but Rosa Park’s lawyer declared the law unjust and decided to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile the black community had laid plans to launch a bus boycott, and instead of taking the bus they found other ways to get to work. The boycott went on for 13 months and nearly bankrupted Montgomery’s public transit system. On nov. 13, 1956 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the segregation laws on buses unconstitutional, and the boycott ended a week later in Montgomery, Alabama. For the first time, blacks could sit where they wanted and years over tumult over equality for blacks had just begun.
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