Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help black people in America be treated fairly. To be treated the same as whites. What was segregation? Slavery in the...

Learn all about the African American civil rights activist who fought for equality and freedom in the USA in our Rosa Parks facts...

This primary resource introduces children to the legacy of Civil Rights campaigner Rosa Parks. Discover the difference that Rosa Parks made when she refused to give up her seat on a bus. Why was Rosa arrested? Why did black people in her city boycott the buses? What year did Alabama end segregation?

Rosa Parks was a prominent civil rights activist who lived during the mid-20th century in the United States. She was a strong advocate for racial equality and worked tirelessly to challenge the system of segregation, which legally mandated the segregation of People of Colour and White individuals in various public spaces.

How can KS1 children celebrate Rosa Parks Day in school? Every year on her birthday, the 4th of February, people commemorate Rosa Parks and the impact that she had on the civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.

Rosa Parks tells the story of her life, showing how her refusal to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus changed the rules of American society, and led towards equality and...

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She is a significant person for KS1 history and an iconic figure for Black History Month: in her lifetime named ‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’, accorded a Congressional Medal in 1999, and one of the very few who has lain in State on Capitol Hill in Washington on her death, as flags throughout the USA flew at half mast.