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If a bus could talk : the story of Rosa Parks / [written and illustrated by] Faith Ringgold.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection F334.M753 R56 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ringgold, Faith, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005--Juvenile literature.
- Parks, Rosa.
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
- African Americans--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--Juvenile literature.
- Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
- Segregation in transportation.
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
- Montgomery (Ala.).
- Montgomery (Ala.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.
- Race relations.
- Women--Biography.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Alabama--Montgomery.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, [1999]
- Summary:
- A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0689818920
- 9780689818929
- 0689856768
- 9780689856761
- 9780439684125
- 0439684129
- OCLC:
- 39123474
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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