Rosa Parks: My Story
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"Rosa Parks: My Story" is an autobiographical book in which civil rights icon Rosa Parks recounts her life, her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her experiences in the struggle for racial equality.
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| instanceOf |
autobiography
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book → |
| about |
Jim Crow laws
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NAACP activism → segregated public transportation → |
| author |
Rosa Parks
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| coAuthor |
Jim Haskins
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| countryOfPublication |
United States
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| depicts |
everyday life under segregation
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grassroots organizing → legal challenges to segregation → |
| describesEvent |
Montgomery bus boycott
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Rosa Parks bus seat refusal on December 1, 1955 → |
| documents |
Rosa Parks role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott
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emotional impact of racism on individuals and families → |
| educationalUse |
teaching biography and autobiography genres
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teaching civil rights history → |
| focusesOnLocation |
American South
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Montgomery, Alabama NERFINISHED → |
| genre |
autobiographical literature
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civil rights literature → |
| hasTheme |
civil disobedience
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human rights → nonviolent resistance → personal courage → racial discrimination → social justice → |
| historicalContext |
U.S. civil rights struggle against segregation
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| intendedAudience |
general readers
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students → |
| language |
English
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| literaryForm |
prose
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| mainSubject |
African American history
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American civil rights movement → Montgomery bus boycott → Rosa Parks NERFINISHED → racial equality → segregation in the United States → |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person
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| portrays |
life of Rosa Parks after Montgomery bus boycott
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life of Rosa Parks before 1955 bus incident → |
| providesPerspectiveOf |
a Black woman in the civil rights movement
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| timePeriodCovered |
20th century
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civil rights era → |
| workChronologyPosition |
later-life account of Rosa Parks
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| workSubjectType |
personal memoir of activism
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Rosa Parks
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