The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth
Background Reading for Teachers and High School Students - PDF. By Herbert Kohl. 6 pages.
A critical analysis of children’s books about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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This reading encourages students to reject the “Rosa Parks Myth,” in favor of a more holistic understanding of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Published by Rethinking Schools.
Keywords: African American, European American, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Freedom Train, U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Highlander Folk School, Tennessee, Voices of Freedom, Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer, E.D. Nixon, Women’s Political Council, Jo Ann Gibson, Alabama State University, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
African American, Civil Rights Movements, Education, Individuals in US History
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