Don't Know Much About Rosa ParksDon't Know Much About Rosa Parks
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Book, 2005
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Current format, Book, 2005, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats- Did young Rosa always follow the rules?
- Why did she join the NAACP in 1943?
- How did Rosa Parks get around Montgomery during the bus boycott?
After Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person, she became known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. But long before her arrest, she knew that the laws separating blacks from whites were wrong. Learn how her family encouraged her to stick up for herself. Read about her active role in the NAACP. Discover how she persevered for Civil Rights during the trying Montgomery bus boycott and the difficult years that followed.
With great sensitivity, best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis describes Rosa Parks's decisive courage and the hardships she endured. Noteworthy photographs and dramatic black-and-white illustrations by Sergio Martinez capture the turbulent emotions of the Civil Rights era.
Examines Rosa Parks and the influences on her life that led to her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, and discusses her continued involvement in the civil rights movement.
Describes the courage and endured hardships of Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who in 1955 refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and whose arrest sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Simultaneous.
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