A Girl Named Rosa
A Girl Named Rosa: The True Story of Rosa Parks is a Scholastic-published book part of the A Girl Named series.
Introduction
Discusses Ms. Parks's act of resistance leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts as an introduction.
Chapter 1: A Place Called Pine Level
Discusses Ms. Parks's birth, family, and early childhood, including her father leaving the family and her mother getting a teaching job, living with her grandparents and lessons learned, and learning about racism as a child.
Chapter 2: Lessons in Being Brave
Discusses Ms. Parks's early childhood, including discussion of racism and segregation, whites that would not interact with black people and did not want black people to participate in government, and violence from white supremacist groups (and her grandfather sitting up as guard).
Chapter 3: Leaving Home to Learn
Discusses Ms. Parks's continued early childhood, including segregated schools, attacks from white children on the bus as black children walked to school, sharecropping and how it affected schooling, and being sent away to Montgomery to continue her education.
Chapter 4: Black and White
Discusses Ms. Parks's early teen years, including an incident with bigotry from a white woman and segregation's continued effect.
Chapter 5: Getting Involved
Discusses Ms. Parks's young adult years, including having to drop out to care for her family, marrying Raymond Parks, returning to graduate from high school at age twenty, her early involvement in the NAACP, and the situation of segregated buses in Montgomery.
Chapter 6: A Serious Choice
Discusses Ms. Parks's protest on the Montgomery Bus in December 1955 (including that it was a planned and not merely done out of exhaustion), the subsequent bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in the city, and her later move to Detroit and how she continued actions in civil rights.
Glossary
Definitions of bolded words.
Timeline
Timeline of Ms. Parks's life.
A Girl Named Marley
Information on Marley Dias, founder of the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign which seeks to showcase more black female characters in stories and novels.[1]
Back Quote
"Each person must live their life as a model for others."
See Also
References
- ↑ This section first appeared in the Sept/Oct 2016 issue of American Girl Magazine.