Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks; Jim Haskins
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0803706731 ISBN-13:   9780803706736 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Non-Fiction Pub. Date:   February 1992 Pages:   200 Format:   Hardcover; With dust jacket Ages:   10 to 14
Subjects
CIVIL RIGHTS_JUVENILE LITERATURE AFRICAN AMERICANS_BIOGRAPHY_JUVENILE LITERATURE PARKS, ROSA, 1913-2005_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
This autobiography of the civil rights hero becomes an oral history of the movement, including her recollections of Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, & others. From 'How It All Started' to 'We Fight for the Right to Vote' to 'Stride Toward Freedom,' Rosa Parks gives her personal insights into her own actions & the civil rights movement. This book captures the essence of this courageous woman. Chronology & index. 'E ven those familiar with her name will realize on reading this engrossing account how little they really know of Parks's life and the events that surrounded the dawning Civil Rights movement. Setting her historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus in the context of a life that began in 1913 in rural Alabama dramatizes the fact that her action came at a time and place that gave it the force to challenge the rigors of a lopsided system of justice. Few will be unmoved by the tactics employed by whites to disrupt the subsequent boycott; at the center, always, is Parks's dignified, calm recounting of outrages against her and other women and men, giving her words weight and impact as no raw fury could. Like sitting at the knee of an elder with much to tell, reading her story leads to ever more questions ('What was it really like then?') and shock that such injustices not only existed in the recent past but still linger. ' - Kirkus Reviews 'The only tired I was, was tired of giving in'. These are the simple yet eloquent words of Rosa Parks, who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Written in her own straightforward and moving language, this is her compelling story.