Boycott Blues
How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
illustrated by Brian Pinkney
ISBN: 9780060821180
$16.99 Hardcover
Amistad Press

Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, the acclaimed husband-and-wife team behind Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, now focus on the human elements of the Montgomery bus boycott following the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help one another get where they needed to go. Some started taxis, some rode bikes, but they all walked and walked. With dogged feet. With dog-tired feet. With boycott feet. With boycott blues.