Meet Rosa Parks

What did Rosa Parks refuse to do on a bus?

• give up her seat to an older lady

• give up her seat to a pregnant woman

• give up her seat to a white man

Rosa's protest caused some people to start saying that the law should be changed. What was an effect of these people demanding change?

• place in the United Stated slowly began changing their laws

• Rosa was arrested for refusing to change seats

• Rosa started to believe that the laws were unfair

• places in the United States quickly changed all laws

Read the following quote from the text:

"Rosa Parks spoke out for what she believed in. She was a person of string character."

What evidence from the text supports this statement?

• Rosa refused to give up her seat on the bus because she thought it was unfair.

• Some people who heard about Rosa's protest started saying there should be more fair laws.

• When the bus Rosa was on became full, the bus driver told Rosa to get off the bus.

The article says that Rosa Parks was a person of strong character. How else could Rosa be described?

(check ALL answers that apply)

• brave

• courageous

• lonely

• sad

What was the main idea of this article?

• Rosa Parks spoke out against a law she thought was unfair by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.

• The United States used to have many laws that kept black people and white people apart.

• Rosa Parks wanted to be able to drive a bus, but an law stopped her from doing so.

Read these sentences from the text:

"The bus driver told Rosa to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa refused. She believed it was not fair that she had to give up her seat. Rosa was arrested after refusing to move."

Based on these sentences, what does the word “refuse” mean?

• show that one is not willing to do something

• to go along with

• to lie

• to ignore

Read these sentences from the text:

"The bus driver told Rosa to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa refused. She believed it was not fair that she had to give up her seat."

How could the last two sentences best be combined?

• Rosa refused, so she believed it was not fair that she had to give up her seat.

• Rosa refused, but she believed it was not fair that she had to give up her seat.

• Rosa refused because she believed it was not fair that she had to give up her seat.

If Rosa had agreed to move from her seat, would the laws keeping black people and white people apart in the United States have changed? Why or why not?