Parks Woman of Courage Award, and has been awarded the Langston Hughes Medal for poetry. She has received some twenty-five honorary degrees, been named Woman of the Year by Mademoiselle Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal and Ebony, was the first recipient of the Rosa L. Oprah Winfrey named her as one of her twenty-five 'Living Legends.' Her autobiography Gemini was a finalist for the National Book Award, and several of her books have received NAACP Image Awards. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, and since then has become one of America's most widely read poets. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. Giovanni calls herself, 'a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.' She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Rosa, a Caldecott Honor book, Lincoln and Douglass, The Genie in the Jar, and Ego-tripping and Other Poems for Young People. Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni's evocative text combines with Bryan Collier's striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.Ĭontributor Bio(s): Giovanni, Nikki: - Nikki Giovanni has written many books of poetry for children and adults. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5įifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Physical Information: 0.13' H x 8.54' W x 10.8' (0.40 lbs) 40 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - CanadianĪwards: Young Hoosier Book Award, Nominee, Picture Book, 2009 Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African-american Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics - Prejudice & Racism Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - 20th Century

Rosa Parks is the subject of this picture-book tribute to her courageous action and the events that followed.

WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: More than 50 years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, Mrs. Contributor(s): Giovanni, Nikki (Author), Collier, Bryan (Illustrator)

Rosa parks by nikki giovanni