Showing The Bus Ride that Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2005 09 Pages: 32 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Now in paperback - an important Moment in History is presented in a cumulative format. Accessible to the youngest readers In 1955 a young woman named Rosa Parks took a big step for civil rights when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. The bus driver told her to move. Jim Crow laws told her to move. But Rosa Parks stayed where she was. and a chain of events was set into motion that would eventually change the course of American history. Fifty years later. The Bus Ride That Changed History retraces that chain of events-introducing the civil rights movement. one idea at a time. Take a ride through history in this unique retelling of what happened when one ave woman refused to stand up so that a white passenger could sit down.