Rosa Parks Language Analysis
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Rosa Parks Language Analysis
A seat on the bus
This original passage is based on historical events. In 1955, racial segregation was enforced on buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Black passengers could be required to give up their seats for white passengers.
On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was travelling home on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The rules of segregation gave white passengers greater rights than Black passengers. When the driver told Parks to give up her seat, she refused. She was arrested.
Parks later explained that she had not been tired in the ordinary, physical sense. She was tired of giving in to an unfair system. Her quiet refusal was not a loud speech, yet it became a powerful act of protest.
Black residents organised a bus boycott: many refused to ride the buses. The protest lasted for more than a year. It took determination to keep walking, sharing lifts and supporting one another. The boycott helped bring change to bus segregation in Montgomery.
Investigate the language
Answer in full sentences where appropriate. Support your ideas with words or details from the passage.
- The enforced separation of racial groups
- A decision to walk instead of taking a bus
- A speech made to persuade a crowd
- A rule that makes every passenger equal
- Her quiet action had great importance and influence
- She used physical force against the driver
- The bus was difficult to move
- The event was unimportant and quickly forgotten
- Contrast
- Emotive language
- Boycott
- Segregation
- Words chosen to stir feelings
- Showing a difference between two ideas
- Refusing to use a service as a protest
- Enforced separation of racial groups
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