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1) Rosa Parks
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A simple introduction to the life of the 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.
6) Rosa Parks
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English
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Introduces Rosa Parks, who made history by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person in 1950s Montgomery, Alabama.
8) Rosa Parks
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English
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"Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America"--Provided by publisher.
10) Rosa Parks
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Biography of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, most famous for refusing to move to the back of the bus she was riding as a protest to unfair treatment of African Americans.
13) Rosa Parks
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English
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A brief biography of Rosa Parks, well-known for her role in the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama at the beginning of the civil rights movement.
14) Claudette Colvin
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English
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"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
16) Rosa Parks
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English
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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.
17) Rosa Parks
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English
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A biography of the 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.
18) Rosa Parks
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English
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A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.
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On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later,...