Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

This is Rosa Parks on the bus.

This is her after the boycott.This Martin Luther King Jr. on the March.

Even though the civil war had ended, black people still were not treated nicely. A group named the Ku Klux Klan or the KKK did not like black people. They started to scare them with gunshots, beat them, and put burning crosses at the front of their houses. Some times they even killed people inside and some times they escaped.

Rosa McCauley Parks was born in 1913. She lived with her grandmother, grandfather, brother, and mother. When Rosa was a little girl, she was afraid to sleep at night because of the KKK. before she was maried her name was Rosa McCauley. She maried Raymond Parks. Black people had to sit in the back of buses and the white got to sit in the front. The bus drivers made the decision where people sat. Then Rosa was tired one day. She got on a bus and sat down and the bus got packed. She had to move because a white person got on and black and white can not sit to together, but she refused to move. Then the bus driver called the police and they arrested Rosa. Then the black people begain to boycott because of her faith on the bus. The leader was Martin Luther King Jr. He also lead a March on Washington. He spoke a famous spech called "My dream."

Sarah