9Th2

Today we watched some of a film about Rosa Parks and thought about what life was like for black people in 50s and 60s America. We looked at things like:

• Black people finding it hard to register for voting
• Police discrimination and victimisation of black people
• The assumption of guilt for black people over white people
• Having separate drinking fountains
• Black people being forced to sit at the back of buses

I wonder what struck you most about the way coloured people were treated.

After half term we’ll look at Martin Luther King and what he did to help get rights for coloured people.