Rosa Parks

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  1. 5. Refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus on December 1, 1955.
  2. 6. One of the most successful mass movements against racial segregation.
  3. 8. The state where Rosa Parks was born and grew up.
  4. 10. A highschool student who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus 9 months before Rosa Parks. She was every bit as brave as Rosa, but her name is often left out of history books.
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  1. 1. a way to protest where you refuse to do business with a company.
  2. 2. Any of the laws that forced racial segregation in the South.
  3. 3. Civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation. Rosa Parks worked as their secretary for 12 years for free.
  4. 4. The highest court in the country that said bus segregation was unconstitutional.
  5. 7. Which First Lady did Rosa meet, who was a longtime champion of civil rights?
  6. 9. The enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.