Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Jenkins
- First Published: 1973
- Time of Work: 1920–1957
- Setting: Pine Level and Montgomery, Alabama
- Principal Characters: Rosa Parks, Leona McCauley, Sylvester, Raymond Parks, E. D. Nixon, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Civil rights, Discrimination, Segregation or integration, Racism, Biography, Strikes or lockouts, Buses, Boycotts
- Locales: Montgomery, AL
Form and Content
In Don’t Ride the Bus on Monday, Louise Meriwether sketches the story of Rosa Parks and the influences that led her, on December 1, 1955, to defy the demands of a Montgomery bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger. The book further details the actions that followed: Parks’s arrest, the organization of the bus boycott, the hardships as the protest continued for 381 days, and the eventual ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation on Montgomery buses was illegal. While the book chronicles the life of Parks, a citizen of Montgomery,...
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