Rosa Parks: Tired of Giving in

by Anne Schraff

Book Overview

All I was doing was trying to get home from work, said Rosa Parks. Raised in rural Alabama, Parks had never known a time when racial segregation was not the law. In her experience, blacks and whites did not live as equals. Then, one day, Parks decided that she had endured enough. Her soft-spoken defiance on a city bus was the spark, and the civil rights activism, led by the young Martin Luther King Jr., was the fire. Author Anne Schraff takes readers...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766024636
• ISBN13: 9780766024632
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8