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
book
about Jim Crow laws
NAACP activism
segregated public transportation
author Rosa Parks
coAuthor Jim Haskins
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts everyday life under segregation
grassroots organizing
legal challenges to segregation
describesEvent Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks bus seat refusal on December 1, 1955
documents Rosa Parks role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott
emotional impact of racism on individuals and families
educationalUse teaching biography and autobiography genres
teaching civil rights history
focusesOnLocation Southern United States
surface form: American South

Montgomery, Alabama
genre autobiographical literature
civil rights literature
hasTheme civil disobedience
human rights
nonviolent resistance
personal courage
racial discrimination
social justice
historicalContext U.S. civil rights struggle against segregation
intendedAudience general readers
students
language English
literaryForm prose
mainSubject African American history
American civil rights movement
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks
racial equality
segregation in the United States
narrativePerspective first-person
portrays life of Rosa Parks after Montgomery bus boycott
life of Rosa Parks before 1955 bus incident
providesPerspectiveOf a Black woman in the civil rights movement
timePeriodCovered 20th century
civil rights era
workChronologyPosition later-life account of Rosa Parks
workSubjectType personal memoir of activism

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