Set on colored pages, these illustrations include an effective double foldout page with the crowd of successful walkers facing a courthouse representing the 1956 Supreme Court verdict against segregation on the buses. Collier's watercolor and collage scenes are deeply hued and luminous, incorporating abstract and surreal elements along with the realistic figures. This handsomely illustrated account of Rosa Parkss refusal to give up her seat chronicles Parkss journey from unassuming bus rider to Civil Rights l. Board of Education, the aftermath and reactions to the murder of Emmett Till, the role of Martin Luther King, Jr., as spokesperson. Shout out to apskenmore for inviting me to participate in their African -American Read-In as part of their blackhistorymonth celebration. This short poem from 2002 is about Black History Month, of course, but what makes it a memorable poem is the way Giovanni uses the imagery of planting and nurturing seeds to highlight the importance indeed, the need for a month which emphasises African-American history and educates people about it. A few events of the movement are interjected - the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Giovanni turns to explaining the response of the Women's Political Caucus, which led to the bus boycott in Montgomery. Soon the story moves to her famous refusal to give up her seat on the bus, but readers lose sight of her as she waits to be arrested. Her needle and thread flew through her hands like the gold spinning from Rumpelstiltskin's loom. Sewing in an alterations department, Rosa Parks was the best seamstress. She cares for her ill mother and is married to one of the best barbers in the county. Rosa Parks's personal story moves quickly into a summary of the Civil Rights movement in this.
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