1. Rosa Parks
Read the Question.
What word would you use to describe Rosa Parks’s character as it related to refusing to move to the back of the bus: courageous, extraordinary, humble, or something else?
Scan the Blurb.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a public transportation bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Although a few explanations exist to explain why Mrs. Parks did not follow the publicly accepted rules of sitting in the back of the bus, her refusal to move made her an icon of the American Civil Rights Movement.
