A phonics-based nonfiction book for level-two beginning readers, providing information about Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who played a major role in the Civil Rights movement. Includes an index and a list of books and Web sites for further study.
In 1955, Rosa Parks bravely refused to obey a bus driver who ordered her to give up her seat because she was black. Readers learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott in detail, review her lifes most important events in a timeline, and appreciate the brave sacrifices of the first lady of the civil rights movement.
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.
Presents a brief biography of the life of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in 1955, worked to end segregation in the United States, and was an activist for equal rights and civil liberties.
Presents a brief profile of civil rights activist Rosa Parks written in graphic comic format, and describes how her experience became the inspiration for the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955.
A biography of Rosa Parks, discussing her childhood in Tuskegee, Alabama, her enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP, the events that propelled her to the forefront of the civil rights movement, and her continuing work for equal rights.
A biography of the African-American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
