About This Webinar
Rosa Parks is one of the most well-known U.S. women of the 20th century and yet much of what has been taught about her is narrow, limited, and at times wrong. This workshop will feature a suite of new lessons and activities developed by the Zinn Education Project in conjunction with the release in 2021 of the young adult book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and a new film with the same title — both based on the Parks’ biography by scholar Jeanne Theoharis. Participants will engage in a classroom activity that disrupts the “she was just tired” myth, revealing the patterns of defiance on behalf of justice that coursed through Mrs. Parks' long life of activism. Attendees will leave this 2023 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference session with free teaching materials and a wealth of resources for teaching about the radical Rosa Parks and the long history of the Black Freedom Struggle.
During Black History Month we celebrated a lot of the black people that contributed to our history and life today. Like I thought (as well as myself), there were alot of things that the students did not know about Rosa Parks. We discussed that when we learned about Ms. Parks, there was no mention of her being married or all of the things her husband was involved in. Most of the students only knew that she refused to leave her seat on the bus. It was great, because there was a lot of discussion and questions being asked. A specific question was why is all of this kind of information left out of the history books.