Who was Rosa Parks?

By Stephen Marchesi, Yona Zeldis McDonough

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, Women, African americans, biography, African Americans, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Alabama, juvenile literature, African American women, Biografía, Segregación en el transporte, Biografia, Derechos civiles, Literatura juvenil, Civil rights workers, juvenile literature, Civil rights workers, Segregation in transportation, African americans, alabama, montgomery, Historia, Civil rights, History, Parks, rosa, 1913-2005, juvenile literature, Afronorteamericanos, Parks, rosa, 1913-2005, Relaciones raciales, Montgomery (ala.), race relations, Race relations, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956

Description: In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."