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Language
English
Formats
Description
"What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"--
"A riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1993.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
5) Rosa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning broadcaster and educator presents his experiences following the path of African Americans who traveled the country during the age of segregation using The Green Book, a guide which helped Black people travel safely.
"Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk....
7) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act" --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened all because of her race -- even though New York was a free state at that time. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court -- where future president Chester Arthur represented her -- and...
17) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
38 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
18) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 19 x 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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."
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