Rosa is a children's picture book written by poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier.Rosa, Publishers Weekly, August 29, 2005. A biography of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, it was adapted to film in 2007 by Weston Woods Studios, Inc., narrated by the author.
Giovanni was the first recipient of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 10, 2004. and knew Parks personally through their involvement in civil rights activism.“Read Together With Nikki Giovanni and Brian Collier”, PBS Rosa was published in October 2005, as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks died of natural causes later that month at the age of 92.
Awards Rosa won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators“Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present” American Library Association. and was a Caldecott Honor Book in 2006.“Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present”, American Library Association.
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