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21) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Language
English
22) Northbound
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car--but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip--in the last story in a trilogy about the author&;s life growing up in the segregated South
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"--
31) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
ix, 246 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 24 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
34) Rosa's bus
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of an ordinary bus--until a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat which became a pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement. Follows the bus's history from the streets of Montgomery to the Henry Ford Museum.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life--the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 690 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relives a critical episode in American history that transformed the Civil Rights Movement when a group of volunteers traveled by bus in 1961 from Washington, D.C., through the deep South, defying Jim Crow laws and putting their lives on the line for racial justice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Loqueleo, Santillana USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, a seemingly small act that triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement."--
40) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 15 x 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to the life and accomplishments of the American civil rights activist who started a movement when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger.
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