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61) Rosa Parks
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A brief overview of the life of Rosa Parks and her work as a civil rights leader.
65) Rosa Parks
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Provides information about the celebrity's personal life and romantic relationships, in addition to her professional achievements and any philanthropic efforts all while overcoming the many challenges and adversity she faced.
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Raised in rural Alabama, Rosa Parks had never known a time when racial segregation was not the law. Then, one day, Parks decided that she had endured enough. Her soft-spoken defiance on a city bus was the spark-and civil rights activism, led by the young Martin Luther King, Jr., was the fire. The Montgomery bus boycott thrust parks into the spotlight, but it is only one part of her story.
72) Rosa Parks
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"How much do you know about Rosa Parks? Find out the facts you need to know about this activitist in the civil rights movement. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American"--Provided by publisher.
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Examines the life of African American activist Rosa Park chronicling her early years, civil rights protests in the 1960s, and continuing work up to her death in 2005. Portrays the people, places, and events that shaped and were shaped by her. Includes a timeline and black-and-white photographs.
77) Rosa Parks
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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.
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No discussion of the Civil Rights Movement is complete without the story of Rosa Parks. But what was this activist like as a child? Following young Rosa from a fishing creek to a one-room schoolhouse, from her wearing homemade clothes to wondering what "white" water tastes like, readers will be inspired by the experiences that shaped one of the most famous African-Americans in history.