Showing Rosa Parks (Trophy Chapter Book) by Eloise Greenfield

Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 09 Pages: 64 Publisher: Harper Collins Moment of TruthWhen Rosa Parks was Growing up in Montgomery Alabama She Hated the unfair the rules that black people had to live by - like drinking out of special water Fountains and riding in the back of the bus. Years later. Rosa Parks changed the lives of African American in Montgomery - and all across America - with one courageous act. On a December evening in 1955. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. She was arrested and put in jail. But Rosa Parks fought back. along with many other African Americans. After a long struggle. their heroic efforts launched the modern Civil Rights Movement. How could one quiet. gentle woman have started it all This is her story.