World Book

Use the World Book Student search tool to find the answers to the question below. Since this activity is about Rosa Louise Parks, it is recommended that you start by searching the key words “Rosa Parks.” Choose or write the answer below each question.
Which of the following was NOT an award that Parks received:

• Congressional Gold Medal
•  Nobel Peace Prize
• Presidential Medal of Freedom 
• Spingarn Medal

Read the Student articles “Civil rights movement” and “Montgomery bus boycott” to answer the following questions.
True or false: Only African Americans participated in the Montgomery bus boycott

• True
• False

When did a federal court rule that segregation on city buses was unconstitutional?

• July 1955
•  June 1956
• June 1954

Use the key words “Rosa Parks” and look at the search results in Student. Identify the biographical articles (articles about people) in the results to learn about some other notable civil rights figures. Choose or write the correct answer below each question.
Who was the first person known to have resisted bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama?

• Claudette Colvin 
• Viola Desmond
• Rosa Parks
• Emmett Till