1913-2005

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1913-2005

Rosa Parks

my story
1992
Rosa Park's life story reveals the deliberate choices she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement.".

Rosa Parks

the movement organizes
1990
A biography of the Alabama woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks

hero of our time
1993
A brief biography of the African American 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.

Rosa Parks

fight for freedom
1993
A biography of the woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

If a bus could talk

the story of Rosa Parks
1999
A biography of the African-American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.

Boycott blues

how Rosa Parks inspired a nation
2008
Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.

I am Rosa Parks

1997
Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955, tells why she decided it was time to take a stand against segregation, and discusses the impact of her actions on the Civil Rights movement.

Rosa Parks

meet a civil rights hero
2004
A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

A picture book of Rosa Parks

1993
A biography of the Alabama African-American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Rosa

2005
Presents an illustrated account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the black community.
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