Rosa Parks
Black History Month with Books for Black Kids
Black History Month with Books for Black Kids: Rosa Parks
February 4th, 1913, is Rosa Parks’ birthday. One of the most well-known figures of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, her actions were pivotal in propelling the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Here are a few books about the “Mother of the Freedom Movement.”
For more books about civil rights, visit the directory: Civil Rights Rosa Parks was not the first person to fight segregation on public transportation, and the directory covers many of their stories.
Books listed here:
📚Who Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?: Rosa Parks by Insha Fitzpatrick
📚History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey Baptiste
📚National Geographic Readers: Rosa Parks (Readers Bios, Level 2) by Kitson Jazynka
📚If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
📚I Am Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer
📚Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
📚Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman
📚I Am Strong: A Little Book About Rosa Parks (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer
