1913-2005

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1913-2005

Meet Rosa Parks

2008
Explores the role of Rosa Parks in the civil rights movement and her continued work to improve the lives of African-Americans, discussing the Montgomery bus boycott, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, and other topics.

Rosa Parks

a life of courage
2006
A brief profile of Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person.

Rosa Parks

2003
A brief biography of Rosa Parks, well-known for her role in the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama at the beginning of the civil rights movement.

Back of the bus

2010
From the back of the bus, an African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Young Rosa Parks

civil rights heroine
1996
Tells the story of young Rosa Parks, an African American whose refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white person in Alabama in 1955 marked the beginning of the end of segregation.

Rosa's bus

2010
The story of a bus and the passengers who changed history.

Rosa Parks

don't give in!
2006
Presents a short biography of Rosa Parks, and chronicles her childhood in segregated Alabama, her education and association with the NAACP, and her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, which sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.

Rosa Parks

from the back of the bus to the front of a movement
2001

Rosa Parks

2000
Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.

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