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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 25 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"--
3) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Language
English
Description
A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegregated city bus service.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that forever shaped the landscape of American race relations. Now, decades after her quiet defiance inspired the modern civil rights movement, Mrs. Parks?s own words tell of her courageous life, her passion for...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
14) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Language
English
Description
The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
16) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to...
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