Books related to Rosa Parks
  • Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
    Description : Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civ...more..
    Amazon Price : $6.99
  • Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
    Description : In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title ÒMother of the Civil Rights Movement.Ó This biography has blackand- white illustrations through...more..
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  • Rosa Parks (Childhood of Famous Americans) by Kathleen Kudlinski
    Description : Childhood of Famous Americans One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -...more..
    Amazon Price : $5.99
  • The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis
    Description : The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movementPresenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthe...more..
    Amazon Price : $27.95
  • American Legends: The Life of Rosa Parks by Charles River Editors
    Description : *Includes pictures of Rosa and important people, places, and events in her life.*Includes some of her most inspirational quotes. *Discusses Rosa's participation in some of the Civil Rights Movement's most famous events. “People always say that I didn't give up my seat becau...more..
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  • History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Rosa Parks by Charles River Editors
    Description : *Perfect for ages 7-9*Includes pictures of Rosa and important people, places, and events. “People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was ...more..
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  • Rosa Parks (Rookie Biographies) by Wil Mara
    Description : Presents a brief look at the life of Rosa Parks...more..
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  • Rosa Parks - A Short Biography for Kids by Jonathan Madden
    Description : A very short biography of Rosa Parks for kids summarizing one woman's struggles to end segregation in busing. This is meant to be an introduction to this famous civil rights hero....more..
    Amazon Price : $2.99
  • At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Vintage) by Danielle L. McGuire
    Description : Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa P...more..
    Amazon Price : $16.95
  • Rosa Parks (Trophy Chapter Book) by Eloise Greenfield
    Description : Moment of TruthWhen Rosa Parks was growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, she hated the unfair rules that black people had to live by -- like drinking out of special water fountains and riding in the back of the bus. Years later, Rosa Parks changed the lives of Af...more..
    Amazon Price : $4.99