African American Women - Biography, 20th Century American History - Civil Rights, Regional Biography, Ethnic Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Civil Rights - African American History, United States - Civil Rights Movement - History, Political Figures - B

Rosa Parks

Name: Rosa Parks
Author: Kai Friese; with an introduction by Andrew Young
ISBN: 9780382240652

by Kai Friese; with an introduction by Andrew Young

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Overview

In 1943 the driver threw longtime 'troublemaker' Rosa Parks off a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, because she used the front rather than the back door. In 1955, the very same driver called the police when she refused to give her seat to a white man--but this time the entire African-American community joined Mrs. Parks in protesting. The Montgomery bus boycott marked the birth of what we know as the civil rights movement, and Rosa Parks has become justly known as 'the mother of the movement.'

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