Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
This story begins with shoes.This story is all for true.This story walks. And walks. And walks.To the blues.Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help...
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This story begins with shoes.This story is all for true.This story walks. And walks. And walks.To the blues.Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help one another get where they needed to go. Some started taxis, some rode bikes, but they all walked and walked. With dogged feet. With dog-tired feet. With boycott feet. With boycott blues.And, after 382 days of walking, they walked Jim Crow right out of town. . . . Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignant, blues-infused tribute to the men and women of the Montgomery bus boycott, who refused to give up until they got justice.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060821180 (0060821183)
Publish date: September 30th 2008
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
AR: 2.9 Grade Level: 3rd-6th Summary: Boycott Blues is a book all about how people, during the civil rights movement, dealt with segregation. The story is told from a "dog-tired hound", which makes the book even more interesting! Idea: I absolutely fell in love with this book the first time I read ...
1/2/13 ** I was fortunate to purchase this book at Cincinnati's Books by the Banks celebration in October 2012, and was able to have it signed by both the author and illustrator.As I was shelving this, I nearly put "biography," rather than "informational," since it begins with Rosa Parks' fateful bu...
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