If A Bus Could Talk : The Story Of Rosa Parks

by Faith Ringgold

Synopsis

If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom. In this book a bus does talk, and on her way to school a girl named Marcie learns why Rosa Parks is the mother of the Civil Rights movement. At the end of Marcie's magical ride, she meets Rosa Parks herself at a birthday party with several distinguished guests. Wait until she tells her class about this!

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Book Information

Copyright year 1999
ISBN-13 9780689818929
ISBN-10 0689818920
Class Copyright
Publisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY;JUVENILE NONFICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 32
Shelf No. HV856
Grade Range 1 - 4
Ages 5 - 8
Lexile AD790L
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