On the Bus with Rosa Parks

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On the Bus with Rosa Parks
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Author Rita Dove
LanguageEnglish
Genre Poetry
Publisher Norton
Publication date
1999
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages95 pp.
ISBN 978-0-393-04722-6
OCLC 39905945
811/.54 21
LC Class PS3554.O884 O52 1999
Preceded byMother Love 
Followed by American Smooth  

On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove. [1] Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". [2]

Contents

The book contains a poem about Claudette Colvin, a high school student who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.

Contents

References

  1. "On the Bus with Rosa Parks".
  2. Pub. L.   106–26 (text) (PDF). Retrieved November 13, 2011. The quoted passages can be seen by clicking through to the text or PDF.