Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today's Youth 
By Rosa Parks
9781880000618
On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks changed the course of history when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. This simple yet courageous act set into motion a chain of events that reverberated throughout the world.
Affectionately referred to as the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement," Mrs. Parks received 500 to 1,000 letters a month from children throughout the United States and the world. Dear Mrs. Parks grew out of Rosa Parks' desire to share her legacy with all "her children," and perpetuate a dialogue that will be recorded for generations to come.
Gregory J. Reed is an attorney and the author of several books, including Economic Empowerment through the Church. He worked closely with Mrs. Parks in helping archive and select the letters for Dear Mrs. Parks.
Teacher's Guide
- Awards
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Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies
NAACP Image Award Winner
Outstanding Children's Literary Achievement
Blackboard Children's Book of the Year
Teacher's Choices
International Reading Association (IRA)
"Choices"
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
- Interest Level
- Grades 1 - 5
- Reading Level
- Grades 2 - 3
- Themes
- Middle Grade, Self Esteem/Identity, Family Traditions, Education, Civil Rights Movement, Bullying
Rosa Parks has devoted herself to the nonviolent pursuit of human rights, especially young people's rights, since refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913 and married Raymond Parks in 1932. Two years after the Montgomery bus boycott, in 1957, she moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she still lives today. In 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Now 85 years old, this is Mrs. Parks's third book.
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