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Young Rosa Parks

by Anne Benjamin

Cover of Young Rosa Parks

A simple 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.

Race relationsAfrican AmericansCivil rightsWomenSegregation in transportationCivil rights workersJuvenile literatureBiographyHistory