Rosa Parks : freedom rider / Ruth Ashby.

Author/creator Ashby, Ruth
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Sterling Pub., ©2008.
Description124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005--Juvenile literature.
African American women--Alabama. --Montgomery. --Biography. --Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Alabama. --Montgomery. --Biography. --Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers--Alabama. --Montgomery. --Biography. --Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Alabama. --Montgomery. --History. --20th century. --Juvenile literature.
Segregation in transportation--Alabama. --Montgomery. --History. --20th century. --Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations. --Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography. --Juvenile literature.

Cover title Rosa Parks : courageous citizen
SeriesSterling biographies
Sterling biographies. ^A909212
Contents One courageous act -- Down home in Alabama -- Welcome to Montgomery -- Finding a cause -- Separate but not yet equal -- A renewed spirit -- Tired of giving in -- Start of the Civil Rights Movement -- The walking city --New directions -- A time for change and sorrow -- Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Abstract A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 121) and index.
LCCN 2007019343
ISBN9781402748653
ISBN1402748655
ISBN9781402758041 (hc) :
ISBN1402758049 (hc)

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