On the Bus with Rosa Parks
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| Author | Rita Dove |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Norton |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 95 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-04722-6 |
| OCLC | 39905945 |
| 811/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3554.O884 O52 1999 |
| Preceded by | Mother Love |
| Followed by | American Smooth |
On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove.[1] Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".[2]
The book contains a poem about Claudette Colvin, a high school student who was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.
