Hull, Mary.

Rosa Parks : civil rights leader / Mary Hull ; with additional text written by Gloria Blakely and Dale Evva Gelfand. - Legacy ed. - New York : Checkmark Books, c2008. - 122 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. - Black Americans of achievement. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The straw that broke the camel's back -- No ordinary little girl -- Getting involved -- The new order -- The movement organizes -- I was not alone -- Montgomery is on trial -- Carrying on the fight -- Work to do.

A biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

ISBN: 9781604133257 (tr. pbk.)

LCCN: 2006034109

Subjects--Personal Names:
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Segregation in transportation--History--Alabama--Montgomery--20th century.
Women--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 323.092