The Nation's Choice: Theme Paperbacks Easy Level Theme 2 Grade 4 I Am Rosa Parks - Softcover

Houghton Mifflin Company

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618062408 ISBN 13: 9780618062409

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School, 2000

Synopsis

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, she made history. In simple, lively language, she tells about her life from childhood to the present, and describes the bus boycott that propelled the Civil Rights Movement to national attention.

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One brave act2 One day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her brave act helped start the civil rights movement. Rosa worked very hard to help black people win their rights. This is her story, in her own words.

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Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618062408
• ISBN 13: 9780618062409
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48