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You are going to read a short text about Rosa Parks, a black woman who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On a cold December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks quietly incited a revolution — by just sitting down.
She was tired after spending the day at work as a department store seamstress. She stepped onto the bus for the ride home and sat in the fifth row — the first row of the "Colored Section."
In Montgomery, Alabama, when a bus became full, the seats nearer the front were given to white passengers. This was called "bus segregation".
Montgomery bus driver James Blake ordered Parks and three other African Americans seated nearby to move ("Move y'all, I want those two seats,") to the back of the bus.
Three riders complied; Parks did not.
The following excerpt of what happened next is from Douglas Brinkley's 2000 Rosa Parks's biography.
After Parks refused to move, she was arrested and fined $10. The chain of events triggered by her arrest changed the United States. Thousands of African Americans consequently refused to take buses, the Montgomery Bus Boycott started. On December 20, 1956, the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended after the U.S. Supreme Court decided that bus segregation was unconstitutional.
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Decide which sentences belong together. Write the number with the correct letter into the gaps below. For example: 1b
| 1) Rosa Parks worked | a) had to give up their seats for white passengers. |
| 2) "Bus segregation" means that black passengers | b) when she refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger. |
3) Rosa Parks was arrested | c) as a department store seamstress |
1) 2) 3)
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