When a young African-American seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white passenger, she turned the smoldering civil rights movement into a firestorm.
Parks’s arrest was chosen to challenge the constitutionality of Montgomery’s bus segregation laws. Soft-spoken and unassuming, Rosa Parks was an unlikely activist.
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"Rosa Parks boarded the bus that fateful day knowing exactly what she was going to do. She was going to stand up for her rights..." back cover
African American leaders decided to urge their fellow African Americans not to ride the buses until they were treated equally. It took a year, but the movement that Rosa Parks began ended in triumph.
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Later that day, thousands of African Americans met at Holt Street Baptist Church. The Montgomery Improvement Agency (MIA) was formed, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected president. Although originally the bus boycott was ...
A full-color biography series features inspirational and contemporary African-Americans of interest to young people and who are important role models for all youngsters.
Presents the African American woman who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.
Dynamic and engaging biographies of black achievers in graphic-novel form.
LET FREEDOM RING Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child, Rosa lived with her mother, younger brother, and grandparents in the small Alabama town of Pine Level, near Montgomery.
"De lo único que estaba cansada era de rendirme." El 1 de diciembre de 1955, Rosa Parks se negó a ceder su sitio a un hombre blanco en un bus segregado, provocando el boicot de los autobuses de Montgomery (Alabama).
Parks, Rosa, and Jim Haskins. I Am Rosa Parks. New York: Puffin, 1999. Weidt, Maryann N. Rosa Parks. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lerner Publications Company, 2003. Works Consulted Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000.
In this book from the highly acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Freedom Movement.
This book follows the same stadnards as other National Geographic Readers with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and fun approach that kids love.
Rosa Parks lived her life courageously. She refused to change bus seats because she was African-American. Children will discover the bravery of Rosa Parks during a time of racial segregation.
Features a biography of the civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913- ), provided by Encyclopedia Britannica as part of the Women in American History site.