Alabama Books

This is a book that everyone interested in Florida history must have in their collection. Anyone interested in the life of frontier people will also find the information in this book fascinating. Dr. Denham's meticulous research is apparent on every page. It seems that there is not a court record or newspaper that he failed to look at. I am an avid reader of Florida history and I would consider this book one of the most professional, yet accessible, of all.

Crated By: Bryan Garcia

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks grew up with her mother, brother, and her grandparents. Rosa had problems in school, her tonsils usually got infected not allowing her to speak loud. This infection made Rosa get left back in the fifth grade. She walks to school with her brother (Sylvester). Rosa loved sewing. It was her hobby. Rosa also had to deal with alot of segregation. White schools were better than black school. White schools had better books, buses and buildings than black schools. Some white people called black people many diferent names just because there different than them. Some white people got along with black people, and will be treated differently because of this.
After the civil war ended, some white people made the Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK to scare different cultures. In Halloween the Ku Klux Klan tried to kill other cultures. That was their treat for Halloween. That just makes me mad to know that this happen. Rosa's family wanted to move back to Afica. Her family own a farm. They sell there products to have money. Rosa's family was very poor. Her grand parents were slaves. Rosa wanted to stop segregation. Segregation started with the Jim Crow Laws.
Rosa was determined to finish school. Rosa's grandmother pasted away, it hurt Rosa's heart. It was a hard time for Rosa . She had a job to do, her mother was sick, and her grandmother past away. She quit school to support her family. There was one thing that made her happy, church. She went so many times to church people called her Sister Rosa.
Rosa fell in love with a man named Raymond Parks. Raymond was apart of the NAACP which stands for National Association for the Advancement of colored people. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People want to stop segregation. In 1931, Rosa, and Raymond got married in Rosa's hometown, Pine Level. She went back to school to get her high school diploma. Raymond worked in a barbers shop. The NAACP tried to stop segregation in a violent way. They wanted to fight to make things better, and that was wrong.
They also are trying to free the Scottboro boys. These boys were framed of abusing a white women, and beating her up. There was no cuts, or signs of abusement.The boys were still found guilty, and sentence to death.It was a all white jury, and there was no evidence, but they were still found guilty. There was an another trial, and it was fair. Five of the boys went to jail, and the rest were free to go.
Rosa Parks went on a bus one day. The bus was crowded in the back. So Rosa Parks sat in the white section. The driver said "get out of the bus." Rosa refused to get off. When she was forced to get off the bus. She looked at the driver and never wanted to go on a bus with him as the driver again.
She met Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. in a lecture. Rosa Parks was shocked on how he spoke. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke so calm, and peaceful. His speeches were like poems.Rosa Parks went to Highlander Folk school. Her friend Virgina Durr was the woman who told her about the school. She helped her, and she was a white women who thought everyone should be treated the same. In this school she was taught freedom fighter how to change the law. She learn how to organize crowds, how to use papers, and radio to get publicity. Her teachers taught Rosa, do not get violent, just resist.
Twelve years after the first bus problem another bus incident happened. Rosa Park was tired, and went on the bus not looking at the driver. She sat next to a black person. The next two stops a lot of white people came in the bus. The bus was crowded. There was one white person left standing. Rosa Parks was told to move, but did not move at all. Police had to come, and get her out the bus. A lot of people left the bus avoiding conflict. Rosa Parks was put under arrest. This started the Bus Boy Cott.
The person who organized the Bus Boy Cott was Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Black people did not get back on the bus until black people were able to sit anywhere, and Rosa Parks was free. They walked for one year, and sixteen days, until December 20th, the bus companies agreed on the law.Also they agreed because the buses were losing money. Rosa Parks was free! It did not stop there. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. made "The March on Washington". There he gave is "I Have A Dream Speech". Many people united as one, black and white people.
Now Rosa Parks is in the National Association for the Advancement of Color people. She is still fighting for equal rights.Rosa Parks worked hard, but never became leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People. It was hard being a woman in the 1990's. Women get no repect. Rosa Parks also work as a youth council leader. She worked with the youth to intergrate the public library. She got the Presidentional Medal of Freedom from President Clinton. Rosa Parks will live on forever.

I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts.

This book is perfect for the classroom. Most reading skills can be taught using this text.

In 1999 when Rosa Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor for being the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement" I was surprised by the news because I thought she had received that honor years earlier. But it took forty-four years for Mrs. Parks to be honored for what she did on December 5, 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act of civil disobedience triggered a black boycott of the city's bus system that lasted 381 days and the passage of laws that ended legalized segregation. You have to go back before the signing of the Declaration of Independence to find an act of defiance that is an important in American history and since the Congressional Gold Medal of Freedom was created there has not been a citizen who deserved it more than Rosa Parks.

Maryann N. Weidt's juvenile biography of "Rosa Parks" for the History Maker Bios series does a marvelous job of not only telling her story but of putting it in context. The assumption gleaned from most American history textbooks for grade schools would be that when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus it was the first time she had stood up for the rights of African Americans. But Weidt makes it clear that Parks had been a part of the fight for Civil Rights for over a decade at that time, having fought the state of Alabama for three years just to earn the right to vote. By the end of this informative juvenile biography young readers will understand why Rosa Parks is remembered as the mother of the Civil Rights Movement. They will also learn about not only the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s role in the boycott, but also about E. D. Nixon, who convinced Mrs. Parks to take her case to court, and Claudette Colvin, a teenager who had fought to keep her seat on a bus earlier that same year.

But the focus of the book is primarily on the life of Rosa Parks, how her grandfather set an example that she followed throughout her life, and the hardships she faced after the boycott ended that forced her and her husband to move north to Detroit. Eventually she would work for John Conyers, an African American congressman, for twenty-three years. Through her writings and her tireless support for the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks has been an inspiration to millions of Americans. When they finish reading Weidt's book, young readers will understand why as well.

While there are a few illustrations by Tim Parlin, the book is filled with historic black & white photographs, not only of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after she was arrested, but also of the segregated buses of Montgomery and even a Coca Cola machine that was for "White customers only!" The back of the book contains a Timeline tracing the life of Rosa Parks, "A Tour of the Past" that can be taken at the Troy State University Montgomery Rosa Parks Library and Museum that opened in 2000, both nonfiction and fiction books for Further Reading, Websites, a Select Bibliography, and an Index.

I ordered a set of American History graphic novels for my classroom but was thrilled to see an example for sale in the book store. I read it and it is quite good. It allows my ESOL students to access the material taught in Social Studies while providing a lot of information in pictures so the students can get a better idea of what the situation was about. I felt the dialogue in the book had more to do with today than the way people talked in Mongomery, Alabama in the 1950s, but it enables the material to be more comprehensible to students. I'm glad I bought a classroom set - a variety of titles.

THIS IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER--WHO WAS KILLED BY LIGHTENING BEFORE MY GRANDMOTHER WAS BORN.

IT GIVES AN INSIGHT OF THE NORMAL LIVES OF POST CIVIL WAR FAMILY LIFE IN THE SOUTH, HOW THEY WENT TO SCHOOL, FOODS THEY ATE, HOW THEY ADDRESSED EACH OTHER, AND GAMES THEY PLAYED. A STORY THAT HAS GONE UNTOLDED.

THIS SHOULD BE A STORY THAT EACH STUDENT SHOULD READ, ALONG W LITTLE HOUSE IN THE WOODS.

Published in 1965, Ella Lonn's book was a forerunner among the flood of outstanding books concerning the American Civil War. "Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy" is a basic work that will last one of the best ones among the books dealing with the lack of industrial development in the States of the Southern Confederacy. During the Civil War, salt was the only preservative for food, and its scarcity in the South contributed significantly to the failure of the Confederate venture either by weakening the boys in gray on the battlefields either by starving the "home front" behind the lines.
The author's book is still unsurpassed in the literature on the Confederacy.
Serge P. Noirsain, Belgian historian. Author of "La flotte européenne de la Confédération sudiste" and "La Confédération sudiste, mythes et réalités".

This is not just a book about a man's life, nor is it just a book about a gay man's life. By its form - information about Ben's life that couldn't be printed in the sixties is now added in italics - it shows how attitudes towards homosexuality have changed. This is at once poignant, because you see a man's love for another man that, while identical to any other kind of love between adults, had to be hidden in ways one never thought of, and hopeful in that things are clearly better now than they were. Most important of all, it's an absorbing, often funny story and beautifully written. Buy it!

The story of Samuel Ullman is fascinating; not just because he is my great great grandfather! He was a strong person who had strong beliefs. This book was clearly well researched and well written. It's worth reading at least once...

This is an excellent addition to the library of any serious student of Vonnegut's works. Broer's insightful examinations of Vonnegut's writings add a new dimension to the reader's comprehension