Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Lydia Bjornlund

Rosa Parks, one the most notable icons of the Civil Rights Movement, is widely remembered for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on December 1, 1955, on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action of peaceful defiance resulted in her subsequent arrest and inspired the Montgomery bus boycott, a year-long boycott of the public transit system in Montgomery by African Americans. Her bravery, along with the actions of hundreds of protesters...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420500104
• ISBN13: 9781420500103
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10