Rosa Parks has 21 books on Goodreads with 16139 ratings. Rosa Parks’s most popular book is Rosa Parks: My Story. Unlimited access to over 4 million digital books, audiobooks, comics, and magazines. Read or listen anywhere, anytime. Access over 700,000 audiobooks and listen across any device. Rosa Parks is best known for the day she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Yet there is much more to her story than this one act of defiance. In this straightforward, compelling autobiography, Rosa Parks talks candidly about the civil rights movement and her active role in it. Reflections by Rosa Parks: The Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation. Rosa Parks $4.69 - $14.28 The most recently released book was Reflections by Rosa Parks which was released in 2018. Rosa Parks also wrote the Children's Books series which has 2 books including Dear Mrs. Parks and Rosa Parks: My Story. Related Authors. The most common authors followed by users who also follow Rosa Parks are: Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Essential Books on Rosa Parks. There are numerous books on Rosa Parks, and it comes with good reason, she was an American activist in the civil rights movement that played an especially pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. Book review #5 Book :Rosa Parks My Story Author: Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins The book Rosa Parks My story was very inspirational, and well written. Rosa parks had a great way of saying what she wanted to say in a different way. She explained her emotions about everything so well that at times I felt the same emotions as her. =Mrs. Parks has written four books, Rosa Parks: My Story: by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins, Quie==The Strength by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth by Whether you’re looking for a children’s book or a deep dive into the history of the Civil Rights Movement, there are plenty of excellent Rosa Parks books to choose from. These works can help readers of all ages and backgrounds to understand Parks’ unique place in history and the ways that she continues to inspire people around the world. Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Now she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national Written by Rosa Parks! Am I really going to give her anything less than all the stars available? Well. Yes. And honestly, I probably would’ve only given two stars, except it’s Rosa Parks. One of the things that’s so easy to love about Rosa Parks is that she was so chill, so down to earth, so humble. About EVERYTHING. “Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksThe NAACP Image Award winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing I have bought quite a few from this series. My 5th grader loves them. She had a resesrch eport due on Rosa Parks and this was a perfect book to teach her more about who she was. She has maybe 5 or 6 other books from this series and really enjoys reading them. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement." On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. These children’s books about Rosa Parks will introduce young readers to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and to Parks’ life of action. There are books for every age and reading level, because Rosa Parks is someone we all need to know. These books will take you past that one day and into the life of the person behind the protest. Take a walk through her childhood and hear about her struggles as a black woman in midcentury America. Going beyond other Rosa Parks books for kids, this complete story shows how her strong values and bravery as a lifelong activist makes her a role model for fighting injustice. This illuminating choice in Rosa Parks books for kids includes: Up from Pine Level Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913. The town newspaper reported that the skies were clear and it was unseasonably warm that day, but beyond that, and the fact that she was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose, virtually no reliable documentation exists on the early years of Rosa Louise Parks. Until recently, Rosa Parks’s personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. After that book (which was excellent, by the way), I had to read more about Rosa Parks and "Rosa Parks My Story" was recommended. It is not written as a professional artist/author would write but she tells her story infinitely better.
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