Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950's, Bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front and black passengers sat in the back--until Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights movement led by a young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery.

 

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Boyds Mills Press .

Jo S. Kittinger is as an editorial assistant with The Flicker children's magazine and is actively involved with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for the Southern Breeze region. She resides in Birmingham, Alabama.