In graphic novel format looks at how in March 2, 1955, African American teenage Claudette Colvin refused to give up a seat on a bus in segregation-era Montgomery, Alabama.
Presents a brief biography, in simple text with illustrations, of Rosa Parks, 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.
"Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America"--Provided by publisher.
An introduction to the life of Rosa Parks, 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.
Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott. Describes the first incident when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and continues through the year's events that led to the end of segregation in the South.
from the back of the bus to the front of a movement
Wilson, Camilla
Chronicles the life of Rosa Parks--whose refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 became a symbol of the civil rights movement--up to her receival of the Congressional Medal of Freedom in 1999.
