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9780791081648

Rosa Parks

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791081648

  • ISBN10:

    0791081648

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-30
  • Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
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Summary

A biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction vi
1 "The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back" 1(12)
2 No Ordinary Little Girl 13(14)
3 Getting Involved 27(8)
4 The New Order 35(11)
5 The Movement Organizes 46(12)
6 "I Was Not Alone" 58(8)
7 "Montgomery Is On Trial" 66(16)
8 Carrying on the Fight 82(12)
9 Work to Do 94(8)
Chronology 102(2)
Further Reading 104(3)
Index 107(11)
About the Contributors 118

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Excerpts

By refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Parks helped spark the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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