Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts

Friday, 3 January 2020

Black & White

Rosa Parks:

Birth place & date:
Tuskegee, Alabama
February 4, 1913
Death place & date:
Detroit, Michigan
October 24, 2005

2 'Did you know' facts 

1. Did you know that . . . After her famous act, Parks lost her job and endured death threats for years to come.

2. Did you know that . . . Upon Parks' death in 2005, she became the first woman to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.

Rosa Parks stood up for equal rights in the 1960's in America by not giving up her bus seat for a white person, which in her day was a big no, no because she would be arrested and beaten by the police. 

Our school takes part in a speech competition and for the 2019 speech we had a theme of making it about 'Courage and Bravery'. After we write our speeches we choose if we would like to go a step further and present our speech to teachers at our school then if we are chosen from our age group we go to town and present our speech again to 'real' judges and get prises. Last year I choose to go that step further and present my speech to judges. Have you ever written a speech and what was the topic about???

I think that she was really brave!!! Do you???
Do you know of any friends, family or people that have been like Rosa???  

image attribution - https://www.biography.com/activist/rosa-parks