SuitabookRosa
Nikki Giovanni, Bryan Collier
- Reading
- Read together, pausing at the illustrations to notice what they add to the written account. If questions about segregation arise, connect them to the unequal treatment shown in the bus incident.
- Themes
- Parks’s refusal: Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, in an account that connects her act to the civil-rights movement. The retelling explicitly presents the refusal as courageous and gives it importance in the history that followed.
- Words and images: Giovanni’s evocative text and Collier’s cut-paper images retell the historical event from a distinctive perspective. The combination presents the episode through both written and visual storytelling.
- Worth knowing
- The subject includes racial segregation and discrimination, including the unequal treatment represented by a white passenger being given precedence on a bus.