ypsilanti courier: Ypsilanti's Fortis Charter Academy students re-enact Montgomery Bus Boycott
Posted on Mon, Jan 21, 2013 : 12:56 p.m.
Fortis Charter Academy fourth-graders in Ypsilanti re-enacted the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott in which activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, the Ypsilanti Courier reported.
The fourth-graders acted as Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other figures in a performance for the school's second, third, fourth, and fifth grade students, as well as the principal and parents.
The students put together their own costumes and wrote their own lines.
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