Rosa Parks: My Story
Author: Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins
Condition: Used- good
Paperback
Overview:
ON DECEMBER 1, 1955, ROSA PARKS REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER
SEAT TO A WHITE MAN ON A SEGREGATED BUS AND SPARKED THE
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, BUS BOYCOTT. A YEAR LATER WHEN THE
BOYCOTT WAS OVER, THERE WAS A FEDERAL INJUNCTION AGAINST
SEGREGATION ON BUSES; DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., WAS A
NATIONAL FIGURE; THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WAS A NATIONAL
CAUSE; AND ROSA PARKS WAS OUT OF A JOB.
YET THERE IS MUCH MORE TO ROSA PARKS’S STORY THAN JUST ONE
ACT OF DEFIANCE. LONG BEFORE THERE WAS A CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT, LONG BEFORE THERE WAS A WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, THERE
WAS ROSA PARKS. HER DEDICATION IS INSPIRING; HER STORY IS
UNFORGETTABLE.
