Edwards, Pamela Duncan.

The bus ride that changed history : the story of Rosa Parks / Pamela Duncan Edwards ; illustrated by Danny Shanahan. - Boston : Sandpiper, [2009], 2005. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.

Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Details the positive consequences of one woman's act of defiance in the segregated South of 1955, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the repeal of Alabama's race laws, and the strengthening of the civil rights movement.



ISBN: 0547076746 9780547076744 (pbk.)

LCCN: bl2009000038

Subjects--Personal Names:
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Segregation in transportation--History.
Segregation in transportation--History--Alabama--Montgomery--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Alabama--Montgomery--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Civil rights workers.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations.
Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography.

LC Class. No.: F334.M753 / P38385 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 323.092 B