Rosa Parks

Description: A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.

Brief description:

Gil Ashby grew up in Harlem and the Bronx, New York. He studied art at the High School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He now is an Associate Professor at the College for Creative Studies. He lives in Jersey City, NJ.

Review Quotes:

"Greenfield begins with an incident in which Rosa as a child in Montgomery, Alabama, is pushed by a white boy and pushes back; throughout she highlights all the small insults and observed--in-juries that help account for her subject's historic decision, one tired evening on too bus, that she had had enough. The same eye for telling detail distinguishes Greenfield's account of the progress and eventual triumph of the bus boycott inspired by Mrs. Parks and organized by Dr. King and other ministers." - Kirkus Reviews