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Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement (Scholastic Biography)

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Camilla Wilson

Rebound by Sagebrush, 2001

Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer
From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement explains why Rosa Parks is considered the mother of the civil rights movement. The book gives an excellent review for a young audience of the history of race relations in the South. It details the events of the day Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man and the cascade of changes that resulted. Parks's ...

George Washington Carver (Scholastic Biography)
Camilla J. Wilson

Scholastic Inc., 1948

George Washington Carver grew up to become an accomplished scientist, artist, and environmentalist, and was a man who made a name for himself starting from the humblest beginnings.