Who Was Rosa Parks? (Who Was?)

by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Author) Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)

Who Was Rosa Parks? (Who Was?)
Reading Level: 4th – 5th Grade
Series: Who Was?
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." This biography has black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448454429
Lexile Measure
700L
Guided Reading Level
P
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
December 20, 2010
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | General
Library of Congress categories
History
African Americans
Civil rights workers
20th century
Civil rights
African American women
Parks, Rosa
Alabama
Montgomery
Segregation in transportation
Montgomery (Ala.)
Race relations

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