Eden and Dujuanna Reading Project

2. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913
She died October 24, 2005
Rosa Parks was also known as ‘the first lady of
civil rights’ and ‘the mother of the freedom
movement’.
Rosa Parks

3. Rosa Parks was the first African-American
woman to stand up for civil rights. She was sitting on the bus
refusing to give up her seat for a white man. The bus driver
asked her politely to move but she wouldn’t listen so he
called a police over and she got arrested for violating
segregation.

4.  Martin Luther King Junior was born on January
15, 1929
 And he died on April 4, 1968
 King Junior has become a national icon in the
history of modern American Liberalism
Martin Luther King Junior

5. • They had an idea for all the Black American
people to boycott the buses. They boycotted
the buses for 75 days.
• The Black American people cheered at the
empty buses.