CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Time for Change 4 CHAPTER TWO Separate and Unequal 10 CHAPTER THREE Becoming a Leader 18 CHAPTER FOUR The Bus Boycott 26 CHAPTER FIVE A Change for Equality 34 Snapshot of Rosa Parks’s Arrest 42 Stop and Think 44 Glossary 46 Learn More 47 Index 48 About the Author 48
5 CHAPTER ONE This booking photo shows Rosa Parks after her arrest on December 1 1955 It was the end of a workday on December 1 1955 a regular day for seamstress Rosa Parks This African-American woman and local civil rights activist was on her way home during rush hour in Montgomery Alabama She rode the bus and that meant following the city’s bus segregation laws At that time the South was segregated drinking fountains public bathrooms restaurants waiting TIME FOR CHANGE
