segregation in transportation

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.

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

Profiles the African-American woman whose quiet act of civil disobedience, refusing to go to the back of a segregated public bus in 1955, inspired the early Civil Rights movement.

"Following the Civil War, feelings were mixed about the freedoms that Lincoln had granted to African American citizens through his Emancipation Proclamation. A group in Louisiana decided to challenge a state law that required companies to have railway cars separated by race. They orchestrated a situation in which a white-looking black man would sit in the white only part of the train and announce he was colored. In a landmark decision that supported the racist feelings in some areas of the country following the Civil War, the effort to secure equal rights at this time failed. The book provides insight into the details of the case and also includes questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology"--Amazon.com.

Presents a short biography of early civil rights pioneer, Rosa Parks.

Presents a short biography of early civil rights pioneer, Rosa Parks.

A brief history of the civil rights movement in America, including the Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks' role in helping to abolish segregation on busses.

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.

A brief biography of Rosa Parks, African American civil rights activist.

Presents the various trials of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, the final Supreme Court decision, and the impact of the case on laws in the South that enforced racial segregation in public transportation and other areas of life.