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Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PATBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAPCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLDawson, Keila V.
Summary: "A nonfiction picture book about The Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans during segregation, and the man who wrote it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Beaming Books] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.896 DAWBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLRinggold, Faith.
Summary: A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young People 1999
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARKSElster, Jean Alicia
Summary: In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard that her father, Douglas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELSTheoharis, Jeanne
Summary: "This definitive biography of Rosa Parks accessibly examines her six decades of activism, challenging young readers perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 PARNathan, Amy
Summary: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Dry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 NATSorin, Gretchen Sullivan
Summary: "How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 SORSummary: Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DRILuxenberg, Steve
Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXMara, Wil.
Summary: Introduces the children to Rosa Parks who is a true American hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARAnderson, Beth
Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENMcDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PARKSSummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "The events surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a civil rights activist, a church leader, and an opponent of the boycott as readers act out the scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 LOHTheoharis, Jeanne.
Summary: The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 PARKS, ROSA THEBay, Mia
Summary: "What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobilityhas been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BAYRoundtree, Dovey Johnson
Summary: "In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROUNDTREE, DOVEY JOHNSON ROUBrinkley, Douglas.
Summary: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA BRIGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: An illustrated description of Rosa Parks' historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus that led to a boycott that lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 GioCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARJazynka, Kitson.
Summary: "Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America. This book follows the same standards as other National Geographic Readers with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and fun approach that kids love. The life story of Rosa Parks has enduring lessons to teach us and this biography should appeal to kids,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Children's Books 2015