Rosa Parks

Summary
This lesson introduces students to Rosa Parks.

Objectives
• To be able to list some of Rosa Parks? key moments.

• To be able to describe Rosa Parks? connection to the civil rights movement.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade

Excerpt
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913. Her given name was Rosa Louise McCauley. Her parents separated, and she lived with her mother, Leona Edwards. They lived in Pine Level, which is located just outside of Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa was homeschooled until she was eleven. At eleven, she was enrolled in the Industrial school for girls. This school was located in Montgomery, and Rosa took vocational and academic courses. Rosa later went to the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for her secondary education, but she had to drop out to care for her grandmother and her mother.

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