segregation in transportation

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segregation in transportation

Rosa Parks

Presents a brief biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, chronicling her childhood and early work with the NAACP, as well as the events surrounding the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott which began because of Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus.
Cover image of Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

A brief overview of the life of Rosa Parks and her work as a civil rights leader.

Rosa

A brief 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.

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

In graphic novel format, relates the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa's bus

[the ride to civil rights]
The story of bus #2857, an ordinary public bus, until a woman named Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger.

Back of the bus

From the back of the bus, an African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Claudette Colvin

twice toward justice
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.

The bus ride that changed history

the story of Rosa Parks
A cumulative narrative recounting the story of Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who sparked the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, for a white man.

Rosa's bus

2016
Follows the history of the bus Rosa Parks was riding on when she refused to give up her seat to a white man from the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

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