Product Description: Provides augmented coverage of RCRA, the Endangered Species Act, and the increasingly important issues of environmental enforcement. Streamlined coverage of the basic pollution statutes to eliminate extraneous and distracting details...read more

On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Shouting “It’s my constitutional right!” as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she’d had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child. But instead of being celebrated, as Rosa Parks would be when she took the same stand nine months later, Claudette found herself shunned by many of her classmates and dismissed as an unfit role model by the black leaders of Montgomery. Undaunted, she put her life in danger a year later when she dared to challenge segregation yet again ― as one of four plaintiffs in the landmark busing case Browder v. Gayle. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of a major, yet little-known, civil rights figure whose story provides a fresh perspective on the Montgomery bus protest of 1955–56. Historic figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks play important roles, but center stage belongs to the brave, bookish girl whose two acts of courage were to affect the course of American history.

Product Description: Known as the mother of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks took a small stance that made a big impact. Just by sitting in a bus seat, she inspired thousands of black Americans to boycott buses altogether! Readers will be introduced to Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement through the details of her biography and the great change brought about by her actions...read more

Product Description: Icons is a biography series that profiles and celebrates significant icons in American history. Each book explores the life of a well-known history maker and provides an overview of the persons achievements.

Product Description: Rosa Parks was an amazing woman. She stood up for herself and for her beliefs. One day, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. Her actions helped spark the civil rights movement. Today, people have more freedom in America because of her actions...read more

Product Description: A biography of Rosa Parks, a courageous African American woman who greatly impacted the civil rights movement in the United States by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man.

Product Description: Known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks sparked a fight for equal rights.  Photographs and easy-to-read text tells the story of this great woman in history.

Product Description: Learn about the childhood of Rosa Parks, who grew up to be a legendary Civil Rights activist and an all-star in American history.Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955 spurred a citywide boycott...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Rosa ParksAuthor: Gosman, GillianPublisher: Rosen Pub GroupPublication Date: 2011/01/15Number of Pages: 24Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2010035326

A biography of Rosa Parks in graphic novel format.

Young readers who may be unfamiliar with Rosa Parks will be inspired by this biography of the American hero and her part in sparking the Civil Rights Movement. Valuable historical information is provided as context for understanding the conditions African Americans were forced to endure before Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Parks continued to serve as a civil rights leader for the rest of her life, making sure her struggles were not forgotten, and today she is seen as a symbol for civil disobedience.