"Georgia decided to help the best way she knew how. She worked together with a group of women and together they purchased the supplies they needed--bread, lettuce, and chickens. And off they went to cook. The women brought food to the mass meetings that followed at the church. They sold sandwiches. They sold dinners in their neighborhoods. As the boycotters walked and walked, Georgia cooked and cooked. Georgia Gilmore was a cook at the National Lunch...

This book describes the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks, whose courage ignited a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama's buses, one of the great protests that sparked the civil rights movement.

Presents the story of bus number 2857 that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights movement. It was this bus that Rosa Parks was riding when she kept her seat in defiance of the laws of segregation. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and, ultimately, to the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

In December 2014 a cab driver tells his passenger, an impatient young man, about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and his memories growing up at that time.

"Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act." -- Provided by publisher.