1913-2005

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Don't know much about Rosa Parks

2005
Presents a brief biography of Rosa Parks, an African- American woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1960s led to a bus boycott that lasted over a year and the introduction of Martin Luther King, Jr. as head of the Civil Rights movement.

Rosa Parks

2002
A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.

Rosa Parks

1994
The biography of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who by her refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus ignited a citywide bus boycott that sparked the entire civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks

my story
1992
Rosa Park's life story reveals the deliberate choices she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement.".

Rosa Parks

the movement organizes
1990
A biography of the Alabama woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks

hero of our time
1993
A brief biography of the African American who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.

Rosa Parks

fight for freedom
1993
A biography of 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.

A picture book of Rosa Parks

1993
A biography of the Alabama African-American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.

Boycott blues

how Rosa Parks inspired a nation
2008
Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.

If a bus could talk

the story of Rosa Parks
1999
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.

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