FAMOUS PEOPLE LESSON 5:

Rosa Parks and

Emily Davison

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ROSA PARKS

Rosa Parks was born on the 4th

February 1913 in Tuskegee,

Alabama in the United States of

America.

ROSA PARKS

At this time in America, white

people and African-American

people were treated differently, with ‘whites only’ seats on buses.

ROSA PARKS

Rosa thought that this was wrong and that being treated differently because

of the colour of your skin was a very bad thing

indeed.

ROSA PARKS

On the 1st December 1955 she decided to do something about this and refused to move when a bus

driver asked her to give her seat on a bus

to a white male passenger.

ROSA PARKS

She was arrested by the police and fined 14 dollars for breaking the rules, but other people heard about this and

stopped using the buses to support

Rosa.

ROSA PARKS

This led to a change in the law on the

20th December 1956 which stopped this

happening on buses. Rosa Parks had

won and from that moment, anybody

could sit in any seat they wanted.

She stood up and fought against an unfair rule which treated people differently because of

the colour of their skin. Many other people were

inspired to do similar protests that led to

‘equal rights’ all over the USA.

SUMMARY: SO WHY WAS ROSA PARKS FAMOUS?

INTERESTING FACTS

A portion of an American road (called a ‘freeway’) in Los Angeles is named after her.

She lost her job because of the bus protest.

EMILY DAVISON

Emily Davison was born on the

11th October 1872, at a time when women

weren’t treated as equal as men.

EMILY DAVISON

One of the big problems was that women were not allowed to vote in

England’s ‘elections’, when

people vote for the people who should lead the country.

EMILY DAVISON

Emily thought that this was unfair so she

joined a group of women called the ‘suffragettes’, who would march and protest to try get

people to see that it was wrong and change the law.

EMILY DAVISON

On the 4th June 1913 Emily stepped out in

front of the King’s horse, Anmer, during a famous

horse race called the ‘Epsom Derby’ to try to draw attention to their cause by attaching a scarf to the horse’s

bridle.

EMILY DAVISON

She was very badly injured as the horse hit her and on the 8th June 1913 she died of her injuries. This shocked the nation and in 1916 the law was finally changed to allow women to vote.

Emily was famous because

her and the other

‘Suffragettes’ had won equal

votes for women.

SUMMARY: SO WHY WAS EMILY DAVISON FAMOUS?

INTERESTING FACTS

Emily was sent to prison nine times for standing up for her beliefs.

A famous suffragette slogan of ‘deeds not words’ is on her grave stone.

QUICK QUIZ: WHO DID WHAT?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO WAS A ‘SUFFRAGETTE’?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO WAS A ‘SUFFRAGETTE’?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON THE BUS?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON THE BUS?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO WAS FINED 14 DOLLARS?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO WAS FINED 14 DOLLARS?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO PROTESTED BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN ?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO PROTESTED BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN ?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

WHO PROTESTED BECAUSE SHE WAS BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY

BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF HER SKIN ?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

W H O P R O T E S T E D B E C A U S E S H E WA S B E I N G T R E AT E D U N FA I R LY B E C A U S E

O F T H E C O L O U R O F H E R S K I N ?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

W HO DIED AFTER STEPPIN G IN FRON T O F THE K ING’S HORSE?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

W HO DIED AFTER STEPPIN G IN FRON T O F THE K ING’S HORSE?

ROSA PARKS?

OR

EMILY DAVISON?

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