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The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to b...

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Main Authors: Giovanni, Nikki (Author)
Corporate Authors: Henry Holt and Company
Group Author: Collier, Bryan (Illustrator)
Published: Henry Holt and Company,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2005]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Parks, Rosa, > 1913-2005 > Juvenile literature.
Parks, Rosa, > 1913-2005.
1900 - 1999
African American women > Alabama > Montgomery > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Alabama > Montgomery > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers > Alabama > Montgomery > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Montgomery > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Segregation in transportation > Alabama > Montgomery > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Race discrimination > Alabama.
African American women.
African Americans.
Civil rights workers.
Race relations.
Segregation in transportation.
African Americans > Montgomery (Ala.) > Biography.
African Americans > History. > History.
Segregation in transportation > Montgomery (Ala.) > History.
Women > Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
Montgomery (Ala.) > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Alabama > Montgomery.
Montgomery (Ala.) > Race relations.
Montgomery (Ala.) > Biography.
Children's nonfiction.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Summary: The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history. Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture-book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.
Item Description: Bryan Collier is the author and illustrator of Uptown, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award. He is also the illustrator of Martin's Big Words, which was a Caldecott Honor Book. The Chicago Sun-Times has called Collier's art "breathtakingly beautiful." Mr. Collier lives with his family in Harlem in New York City. www.bryancollier.com.
Art techniques used: Illustrated in collage and water color, in both color and black and white.
Carrier Form: 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience: 800L
Awards: Coretta Scott King Award, illustrator, 2006.
Caldecott Honor Book, 2006.
ISBN: 9780805071061
0805071067
0545042593
9780545042598
9780312376024
0312376022
0329454757
9780329454753
1415627959
9781415627952
Place of Publication: United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
Index Number: F334
CLC: K837.128.7
Call Number: K837.128.7/P252G

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