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Mattie Kahn talked about young girls who helped to ignite key social movements in American history such as 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the bus boycotts.

Rosa Parks, in which she recounts the late civil rights leader's political activism. ... Parks is often only remembered for her bus arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, but her involvement in the civil rights movement was far more extensive. ... Theoharis spoke at the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama.

The author profiles a range of historical figures, from astronaut Sally Ride to Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks and aviator Amelia Earhart.

Rosa Parks, in which she recounts the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

Danielle McGuire, assistant history professor at Wayne State University, recounts the politically active life of Rosa Parks, a side of the civil rights figure that the author contends has been under reported. ... McGuire recalls Rosa Parks' involvement as an NAACP organizer who in 1944 investigated the rape of Recy Taylor, a black sharecropper, who was attacked by seven white men on her way home from church. According to the author the incident solidified Rosa Parks' activism long before her refusal to move from her seat aboard a Montgomery bus in 1955.

Its Hemingway collection includes letters the author wrote while mentoring Santa Rosa, California, journalist Denne Petitclerc. C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2015 LCV Cities Tour" in Santa Rosa, California, from September 12-17 to feature the history and literary life of the community.

Authors Mary Frances Berry, Barbara Ransby, and Jeanne Theoharis talked about their books and about civil rights figures Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson. "Conversations in Black Freedom: Celebrating the Legacies of Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson" was a panel at the 2013 Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Du Bois, Rosa Parks and Wole Soyinka on his life.

Fred Gray, the attorney for Rosa Parks in the Montgomery Bus Boycott case, talked about his book, Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the Sytem by the System - The Life and Works of Fred Gray, in which he recounts his career and his involvement in the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks, in which she tells the story of Rosa Parks and her six decades of political activism.

Herbert Kohl talked about his book She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, published by New Press. In his book, he argued that the traditional way children have been taught the Rosa Parks story is misleading. The author explained that Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat on an Alabama bus was part of a well thought out demonstration, not strictly a personal decision.

Douglas Brinkley discussed his book Rosa Parks. ... Parks*' friends and family members in the audience were introduced.

Rita Dove discussed her book "On the Bus with Rosa Parks", published by W.W.

The essays contemplate a number of themes, including her happiness when touring the sites of the battles at Gettysburg or why people inappropriately compare themselves to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.