![]() ![]() Rosa didn't fight alone, people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year. She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours. Rosa was a member of a civil rights group which fought for black and white people to be treated the same. The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a white person, but Rosa said no! ![]() One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full. This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets. ![]() Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat you differently.Īt that time, southern states in America, had something called ‘segregation’. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. We use buses every day to go to school or into town. ![]()
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