TY - GEN AU - Ringgold, Faith TI - If a bus could talk: the story of Rosa Parks T2 - Reading Rainbow Book SN - 9780689856761 CY - China KW - Strong Womens KW - Children's Literature KW - Based on True Stories KW - Racism KW - Biography N2 - If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the same row as a white person. It would tell of the fateful day when Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white man and how that act of courage inspired others around the world to stand up for freedom. ER -