I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks

I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks

One brave act2 One day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her brave act helped start the civil rights movement. Rosa worked very hard to help black people win their rights. This is her story, in her own words.

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Parks, Rosa: - Rosa Parks (1913-2005) devoted herself to the nonviolent pursuit of human rights, especially young people's rights, since refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913 and married Raymond Parks in 1932. Two years after the Montgomery bus boycott, in 1957, she moved to Detroit, Michigan. In 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. She passed away in 2005 at the age of 92.

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ISBN 13	9780141307107
ISBN 10	0141307102
Title	I Am Rosa Parks
Author	Rosa Parks
Series	Penguin Young Readers Level 4
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1999-12-01
Number of pages	48
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