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Study Guide and Learning Activities: Rosa Parks: A Life by Dr. Douglas Brinkley This Study Guide has been developed by Judy S. Miller, M.Ed., M.A., Symposium director, in support of the fall 2018 Student News Net Symposium: Actions and Accomplishments of African American Women of the 1940s and 1950s. Dr. Douglas Brinkley is the keynote speaker. The two-part Study Guide begins with the last pages of the book where Dr. Brinkley discusses his two years of research as he wrote the book in the late 1990s. Part I of the Study Guide also covers Chapters 1 through 9 – Rosa’s life through her courageous 1955 bus action. Part II of the Study Guide covers the final three chapters of the book after Rosa and Raymond, her husband, moved from Montgomery to Detroit in 1957 amid death threats and the inability to find employment. We thank Dr. Brinkley for giving us an extensively researched and superbly written biography of Rosa Parks, available to students and teachers for generations to come to learn about the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, a heroine. Please email any comments or questions about the Study Guide to Judy at jmiller@studentnewsnet.com. Part I of the Study Guide […]

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In this section, Student News Net will post, on an ongoing basis, supporting content to include lesson plans, lesson ideas, photos, video, and Student News Net primary source articles, photos, and video. The three main content areas are: 1) Rosa Parks and Edna Griffin, 2) African American Rosie the Riveters, and 3) Katherine Johnson and female African American mathematicians, called human computers, as featured in the book and movie, Hidden Figures. For questions, email Judy, Student News Net editor, at jmiller@studentnewsnet.com. Timeline and Study Guides Timeline (1850 –1965) Study Guide Student News Net Articles Rosa Parks Bus at the Henry Ford Rosa Parks Centennial Edna Griffin Katherine Johnson “Rosie’s” Please Note: All content in this section can be downloaded only for educational use and cannot be used for any commercial purpose.