Rosa Parks
Subtitle: hero of our time
By: written by Garnet Nelson Jackson ; illustrated by Tony Wade.
Contributors: Wade, Tony, ill.
Series: Beginning biographies
Publisher: Modern Curriculum Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Parks, Rosa, 1913- -- Juvenile literature.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-; African Americans -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Biography.; African Americans -- Civil rights.; Women -- Biography.; Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography.
Description: A brief biography of the African American who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.