Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
A photo-illustrated chronicle of the life of Rosa Parks, which describes her childhood, how her refusal to give up her bus seat triggered the Civil Rights Movement, and her legacy.
Describes the life of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman whose refusal to move to the back of a bus in 1955 sparked a boycott and helped advance the civil rights movement.
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 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.