All the events are depicted in emotive naive artwork that underscores their truth Ringgold delivers Parks’s story without hyperbole, but rather as a life lived with pride, conviction, and consequence. These experiences make her refusal to release her seat all the more courageous, for the consequences of resistance were not gentle. Duke Ellington and Jazz Born in America and enjoyed worldwide, jazz is a fun and exciting part of American history. Ringgold, through the bus, also informs readers of Parks’s youth in rural Alabama, where Klansmen and nightriders struck fear into the lives of African-Americans. A decent amount of the material will probably be new to children, for Parks is so intimately associated with the Montgomery Bus Boycott that her work with the NAACP before the bus incident is often overlooked, as is her later role as a community activist in Detroit with Congressman John Conyers. Narrating the book is the bus that Parks took that morning 45 years ago it recounts the signal events in Parks’s life to a young girl who boarded it to go to school. Get inspired by more poignant works from Andrea Davis Pinkney The inspiring story of singer Ella Fitzgerald as told by Scat Cat Monroe, a feline fan who sings. Ringgold’s biography of Rosa Parks packs substantial material into a few pages, but with a light touch, and with the ring of authenticity that gives her act of weary resistance all the respect it deserves.
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