On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery,
Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks quietly refused to give up her seat on the bus
to a white man. “She thought about her mother and her grandmother and knew they
would want her to be strong. She had not sought this moment, but she was ready
for it,” writes author Nikki Giovanni in Rosa,
a moving picture book about Parks. A professor at the local college heard about
the incident and, with a group of like-minded friends, printed up signs that
began the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted more than a year and resulted in a
federal ruling that segregated buses were unconstitutional. Illustrator Bryan
Collier received the Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Honor for his bold
and beautiful watercolor and collage interpretations of the story. Ages 6-10.
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