1. Rosa Parks and Emily Davison
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Famous people lesson 5:
Rosa Parks and
Emily Davison

2. Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was born on the 4th February 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama in the United States of America.

3. Rosa Parks
At this time in America, white people and African-American people were treated differently, with ‘whites only’ seats on buses.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Summary: so Why was rosa parks famous?
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.

9. 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.

10. Emily Davison
Emily Davison was born on the 11th October 1872, at a time when women weren’t treated as equal as men.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Emily Davison
On the 4th June 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.

14. 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.

15. Summary: so Why was emily davison famous?
Emily was famous because her and the other ‘Suffragettes’ had won equal votes for women.

16. 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.

17. Quick quiz: who did what?or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

18. Who was a ‘suffragette’?or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

19. Who was a ‘suffragette’?or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

20. Who refused to give up her seat on the bus?
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

21. Who refused to give up her seat on the bus?
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

22. who was fined 14 dollars? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

23. who was fined 14 dollars? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

24. or Rosa Parks? Emily Davison?
who protested because she was being treated unfairly because she was a woman? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

25. or Rosa Parks? Emily Davison?
who protested because she was being treated unfairly because she was a woman? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

26. or Rosa Parks? Emily Davison?
who protested because she was being treated unfairly because of the colour of her skin? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

27. or Rosa Parks? Emily Davison?
who protested because she was being treated unfairly because of the colour of her skin? or
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

28. Who died after stepping in front of the king’s horse?
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

29. Who died after stepping in front of the king’s horse?
Rosa Parks?
Emily Davison?

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