Cross-Curricular Connections

from Rosa Parks: My Story

By not giving up her seat, Rosa Parks was protesting the practice of separating white and black people. This practice was called "segregation." Click on the link below to learn more about segregation and one man who worked to end it, Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.remembersegregation.org/

Segregation is not unique to the United States. One particularly bad form of racial segregation used to exist in the country of South Africa. It was called "apartheid." Click on the link below to learn about apartheid and to look at photographs of people living under apartheid.

http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/apartheid.htm