Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

This is Rosa Parks. She was a big part in the blacks having equality. Rosa Parks was a brave woman. She lived in Alabama most of her life. Her father left her when she was a baby. So her family went and stayed with her uncle and aunt. Rosa grew up when the triple KKK (Ku Klux Klan) was in Alabama. At night she would sit beside her uncle (which had a loaded shotgun) because she was afraid. When she got married she was 19 years old!! As she grew older she was the secretary for the NAACP. On December 1, 1955 Rosa boraded a bus coming home from work, the bus driver's name was James Blake. She sat in the black section of the bus and at first it was fine until the white section was full. Then the bus driver told four black people to move and stand up in the back of the bus. At first nobody moved. Then he said it again. This time three people got up, but Rosa would not move. He told her he would call the police if she did not get up. Rosa said "That is fine.". So he called the police and they took her to jail.

This is Martin Luther King Jr. He also helped the blacks to equality. While Rosa Parks was in jail all the blacks became very upset about what happened that they decided to boycott the buses. The blacks chose to make Martin Luther King Jr. their leader of the boycott. The boycott continued for a year and the buses did not have enough money. They did not have enough money to pay the drivers. Soon Rosa was out of jail and Martin Luther King Jr. did a speech about "I have a dream" in Washington, D.C. After 13 months of boycott the white and black people were sitting together on the buses and having the same water fountain! It was a joyful moment for the United Sates.

Isaac Camp

My information came from the following: Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. and The March on Washington, and other library books.