Rosa Parks Day

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery 1956.

Welcome to our In the Know topic for December, Rosa Parks Day.  You may wish to take a look at other grade spans and recommend articles to students that are below or above their grade’s reading level.

Grades K-1 learn about Rosa Parks.  A Spanish translation to the article may be found here.

Grades 2-3 examine how Rosa Parks started a movement. A Spanish translation to the article may be found here.

Grades 4-5 investigate Rosa Parks’s later life.  A Spanish translation to the article may be found here.

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Photo Credit: World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo