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Rosa's Bus

The Ride to Civil Rights

By (author) Jo S. Kittinger
Illustrated by Steven Walker
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Astra Publishing House, United States
Imprint: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 10th Jan 2017
Dimensions: w 229mm h 276mm d 4mm
Weight: 204g
Interest age: From 7 to 10 years
ISBN-10: 1629798487
ISBN-13: 9781629798486
Barcode No: 9781629798486
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Synopsis
Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950's, Bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front and black passengers sat in the back--until Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights movement led by a young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery.

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"Employing direct, accessible, relentless language arranged in free-verse stanzas, the author brings to life the drama of Parks's act (neither busting myths nor exploiting them) and the events it sparked. Walker's double-page, large-scale oils evoke the emotions of a determined people and perfectly complement the text. The author's note contextualizes the boycott and names Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith as Parks's forerunners. Powerful." -Kirkus Reviews

"An inventive approach... kids will connect with the unsentimental, contemporary message: 'Imagine where it has been / and where we have yet to go.'" -Booklist