Said, "No, I will not." Then he said, "I'll have you arrested." And I Standing, he spoke to us (the man and two women across the aisle) and At this point a few white people boarded theīus, and one white man was left standing. We were not disturbed until we reached the third stopĪfter I boarded the bus. Was next to the window - the first seat that was allowed for "colored" I did not sit at the very front of the bus I took a seat with a man who The evening that I boarded theīus, and noticed that he was the same driver, I decided to get on anyway. He evicted me before, because I would not go around to the backĭoor after I was already onto the bus. That I decided was not the first time I had trouble with that particularĭriver. I read very often.ĭecide on December 1, 1955, not to get up from your seat? Tales Little Red Riding Hood, Mother Goose. I liked to read all sorts of stories, like fairy It, you had no access to books, pencils, whatever. Of the time young people would be available to work on the farm. We went to school five months out of the year. There could be anywhereįrom 50 to 60 students of all different ages. There was one teacher for all of the students. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child.įirst school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.
You allowed to learn to read when you were little? The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decideįor themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. But when I did learn about it, I didn't feel very good about it.ĭo you feel about the people who treated you so unfairly?ĭon't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of I was a young child I couldn't understand why black people weren't treatedįairly. You were little, did you understand that black people weren't treated I was willing to getĪrrested it was worth the consequences. Rules because they didn't want to get into trouble. There were places black people couldn't go, and rights we did not have. In the South, at that time, there was legally enforced segregation. Like we should all be free people and we should have the same rights as Have been free and given the same opportunities others had. And how, as a result of that brave act, in 1956 the Supreme Court ruled segregation on buses was illegal.īelow are Rosa Parks's answers to questions from students.ĭo you feel about the way black Americans used to be treated?Īlways felt badly because our people were not treated fairly. Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by not giving up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," visited the Scholastic website in January and February 1997 to answer questions from students.ĭuring this monthlong project, students learned how Mrs.
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