Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Activist

by Avery Elizabeth Hurt

Book Overview

Shy, gentle Rosa Parks has often been characterized as an unlikely hero, but here readers will learn that her combination of gentleness and fierce determination to resist injustice made her activism inevitable. This engrossing book explores Parks's childhood experiences with racism as well as her lifetime of work in the struggle for equality to present a fully realized portrait of a woman who was much more than a timid seamstress who had had enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538381028
• ISBN13: 9781538381021
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 48 Pages
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7