Lexic.us

Definition of Rosa Parks

1. Noun. United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosa Parks

Literary usage of Rosa Parks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kickstart Initiative: Connecting America's Communities to the Information by Delano E. Lewis (1997)
"Three years ago the Rosa Parks School was ready to close. ... In spring 1994, MCl Communications Corporation adopted Rosa Parks, beginning a three-step ..."

2. Readers' Theater Grade 5 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Evan-Moor, Michael Ryall, Don Robison (2003)
"Rosa Parks began a historic boycott. When Martin Luther King. ... Perhaps | the most well-known instance is thai of Rosa Parks. ; who refused to give up her ..."

3. Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen (2006)
"One of the key landmarks of the civil rights movement, it was here that supporters rallied around Rosa Parks in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, ..."

4. Teaching for Deep Comprehension: A Reading Workshop Approach by Linda J. Dorn, Carla Soffos (2005)
"... Carol Otis Hurst (Greenwillow) Rosa Parks: My Story, Rosa Parks (Dial) (autobiography) Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy, Phil Bildner (Simon and Schuster) ..."

5. What Happened Today? by Jill Norris, Sharon Rosenberger (2001)
"Today is Rosa Parks Day. On December 1, 1955, Ms. Parks was arrested in Alabama when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. ..."

6. America's Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science by Susan R. Singer, Margaret L. Hilton, Heidi A. Schweingruber (2006)
"Teachers as Learners At the Rosa Parks Community School in the South Bronx, the teachers have been working together to change how they teach science, ..."

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