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Author:

Wheeler, Jill C., 1964-

Title:

Rosa Parks / by Jill C. Wheeler.

Publisher:

ABDO & Daughters,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Parks, Rosa,--1913---Juvenile literature.
Parks, Rosa,--1913-
African American women--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--History--Montgomery--Montgomery--History--20th century.--Juvenile literature.
Segregation in transportation--Montgomery--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Legacy of freedom -- Grandma and grandpa's farm -- Nights of fear -- Separate and unequal -- Wedding bells -- On a mission to vote -- "You may do that" -- Boycott! -- We shall overcome -- Revolution takes hold -- Moving on -- National heroine.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Breaking barriers
A&D biographies
Wheeler, Jill C., 1964- Breaking barriers.

ISBN:

9781577656401
1577656407

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46975030

LCCN:

2001027938

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

SQPC104 -- Jesup Public Library (Jesup)

KLPC566 -- West Point Public Library (West Point)