Rosa Parks
BUS RIDE TO FREEDOM
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“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in…. When I declined to give up my seat, it was not that day or bus in particular. I just wanted to be free, like everybody else.” – Rosa Parks.
Cloze Activity
Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words. Use the definitions to help you.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is often called' the 1. of the civil rights movement'. Parks worked with the National Association for the Advancement of 2. People, but her defining moment came on a city bus in Alabama in 1955.When they asked her to give up her 3. to a white passenger, she refused. Her 4. and trial led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott- and, 5. to the end of 6. .
1. A woman in relation to her child or children.
2. Of a race that does not have white skin.
3. A thing made or used to sit on.
4.The action of keeping somebody prisoner with the authority of the law.
5. In the end, at last.
6.The action of separating people.