Rosa Parks: Hero of Our Time
by Jackson, Garnet Nelson
Series:Beginning Biographies (Modern Curriculum)
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AR Book Level
3.3
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
667
Interest Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
59826 EN
About this book
This book is a simple biography of Rosa Parks, an African American civil rights activist. It describes how she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, which led to her arrest and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The book explains how this act of resistance helped spark a movement that changed the nation's civil rights laws.