Rosa parks biography story for first graders
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This is Rosa: Read the Story of Rosa Parks
Rosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in When she was 2, her parents separated. Rosa moved with her mother to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her grandparents. Rosa’s mother taught school in another town. She was able to come home to see her children only on weekends.
Rosa missed her mother, but she loved being with her grand-parents. From her grandfather, she learned how to plant corn and milk cows. Her grand-mother taught her how to cook and make quilts.
HONORARY STAMP On February 4, ( years after Rosa was born), the U.S. Postal Service revealed a commemorative stamp honoring Rosa.
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE VIA GETTY IMAGERosa’s grandparents also taught her about racism. In the American South, laws kept Black people separate from white people. Black people had to use separate entrances, drink from separate fountains, and go to separate schools and hospitals. Sometimes, groups of white men attacked Black people. They se
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Rosa was born on February 4, in Tuskagee, Alabama. When she was a child she was often sick and sadly had to spend a lot of time in bed. Then when she was two their family moved to live with their grandparents on a farm in a town called Pine Level. Rosa loved being on the farm with her family. It gave her and her siblings lots of room to play and spend time with each other. They explored the woods and streams nearby and she enjoyed the school there.
Rosa was safe in Pine Level, but this wasn’t the case in other places in Alabama. Rosa and her family were African American and this was a time when black people were treated poorly in Alabama. They were forced attend separate schools, used separate bathrooms, and to drink from different drinking fountains. This is called segregation. They were often called mean names or abused.
When Rosa was eleven, she moved to Montogomery, Alabama to go to a better school. It was called the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. The head of
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ROSA PARKS:I'm going to tell you something about my life. My name fryst vatten Rosa Parks. I was born in the year , in the United States of America.
ROSA PARKS:What happened to me, the story I'm going to tell, well, it was such a surprise to me, really, but…
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ROSA PARKS:'I grew up on a farm in Montgomery, Alabama. I had to help out around the farm, and every morning inom picked up eggs laid by the chickens we kept, that ran around our front yard.
ROSA PARKS:'My grandfather, he lived with us too. And he liked to spend his afternoons sitting on the porch, snoozing in the sun or telling me stories.
ROSA PARKS:'Everything seemed just right with the world. It was a simple life, and I was happy.
ROSA PARKS:'I was just seven when I began to meddelande things. Things that made me think that maybe the world wasn't ganska right after all.
ROSA PARKS:'My grandfather would take me into town with him. And what I started to