Rosa Parks was your average hard working African American woman. She took care of her mother and husband- a well respected Air Force barber. Rosa works hard as a seamstress and was happy to get a seat in the neutral section of the bus on December 1, 1955. She had worked hard all day and was glad to rest her feet. She certainly wasn't looking to get arrested, and she never thought taking that seat would spark a civil rights debate that would grab the attention of the entire nation and place her name in history books. Yet that is what happened.
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man she was arrested for civil disobedience. When word spread of this respected woman's incarceration the African American community began a boycott of public transportation that would change the face of America forever.
While this book is a very brief telling of the moment that ignited a civil rights movement, it in no way tells the entire story. What happened to Rosa after jail? How long before African Americans and whites could sit wherever they wanted on a bus? Readers will have to look else where for that information. However, the beautiful illustrations of Bryan Collier and clear, concise style of Nikki Giovanni are sure to spark conversation.
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