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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an account of the boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 by African-Americans who were protesting a policy that required African-Americans to sit in the back of a bus, or give up their seats for white people.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
No discussion of the Civil Rights Movement is complete without the story of Rosa Parks. But what was this activist like as a child? Following young Rosa from a fishing creek to a one-room schoolhouse, from her wearing homemade clothes to wondering what "white" water tastes like, readers will be inspired by the experiences that shaped one of the most famous African-Americans in history.
44) Meet Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces the life of Rosa Parks, who stood up for her rights as an African American when she refused to give up her seat on a bus.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Profiles is so much more than just your typical biography series. The next book in this six-in-one, full-color bio series will focus on Civil Champions--some of the incredible women who worked tirelessly to ensure equal rights for all. Kids will learn all of the biographical information they need to know--background, family, education, accomplishments, etc., about: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave? A Girl Named Rosa describes the defining moments that made up her childhood and adolescence with full-color illustrations throughout. In addition to stories and facts about Rosa's upbringing and accomplishments, the book includes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Appears on list
Description
"In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and celebrated, she...
48) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Description
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?...
49) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In December 2014 a cab driver tells his passenger, an impatient young man, about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and his memories growing up at that time.
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