| Not long ago it was legal to discriminate against black
people in the United States. That's when Rosa McCauley was growing up
in Montgomery, Alabama. When Rosa was 11 years old, she went into a store
with her cousin, Annie Mae, who asked for a soda. The answer they received:
"We don't serve sodas to colored people." This was legal, but
Rosa knew it was wrong. Years later, in 1955, Rosa Parks, now a married
woman, had a chance to act courageously on her beliefs. By law, black
people had to sit in the back of city buses and stand if a white person
needed a seat. One day, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man.
She was arrested. This led to blacks to boycott, or not use, the buses
in Montgomery until the unfair law was changed. Rosa Parks has been called
the "mother of the civil rights movement." Rosa died in October
2005. |
