Civil Rights Mover: Rosa Parks

Introduction

This WebQuest will provide students with the opportunity to study Rosa Parks in depth. Students will research who Rosa Parks was, and better understand the impact that she had on the Civil Rights Movements when she made the decision to not give up her seat on the bus on that fateful day in Montgomery, Alabama.

 

Introduction

 

 

          The Civil Rights Movement was a time of great turmoil in the United States. However, it led to many changes taking place that gave rights to African Americans in this country. Segregation, the act of separating different racial groups that was enforced in many parts of the south, was in effect, and African Americans did not have the same rights as their white counterparts. Schools, businesses, restaurants, housing, places of employment, and even methods of transportation are just a few examples of ways of life that were separated by race.

 

Here is a brief clip of what life was life in the segregated south:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7eNRB2_0Q

Task

Task

 

The class will be separated into groups of four. Each group will work together to create a PowerPoint that will be presented to the class. There should be a group leader (the group will decide who this leader will be) and the leader will work with the group members to separate the tasks evenly.

 

Use the following outline to ensure that your presentation is thorough:

  1. Introduction
  2. Early life of Rosa Parks
    1. When, where was she born?
    2. What did she do?
    3. What was her life like?
  3. The Segregated South
    1. Segregation: What was it?
    2. Examples of segregation
    3. Segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama
  4. Arrest of Rosa Parks
    1. When it happened
    2. Why it happened
    3. Aftermath of arrest
  5. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
    1. When
    2. Participation

                                                 i.    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

                                                ii.    Ralph Abernathy

                                              iii.    E.D. Nixon and the NAACP

                                               iv.    Other notables

  1. Results of boycott
    1. Duration of boycott
    2. Supreme Court ruling
  2. Legacy of Rosa Parks
    1. Life after the boycott
    2. Honors and recognition
    3. Death

                                                 i.    Lying in state

                                                ii.    Funeral

                                              iii.    Burial

  1. Conclusion