Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

by Anita Louise McCormick

Book Overview

In 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white passenger, her decision sparked the beginning of a new era in the civil rights movement. Her arrest inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and other African American leaders to organize a bus boycott that ended only when a U.S. Supreme Court decision ended segregation on public buses. Readers will learn how events in her life brought Parks to the point where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538380625
• ISBN13: 9781538380628
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 10