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Rosa Parks: A Life Paperback - 2005
by Douglas G. Brinkley
An eminent historian follows Rosa Parks from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved--and resented--icon of the civil rights movement.
Summary
Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman from her childhood in Jim Crow Alabama through her early involvement in the NAACP to her epochal moment of courage and her afterlife as a beloved (and resented) icon of the civil rights movement. Well researched and written with sympathy and keen insight, the result is a moving, revelatory portrait of an American heroine and her tumultuous times.
First line
OF ALL THE CIVIL RIGHTS SITES worthy of pilgrimage in Alabama, and there are many, none transfixes the historical imagination quite like that marked only by a simple green sign on an ordinary-looking street in Montgomery.
Details
- Title Rosa Parks: A Life
- Author Douglas G. Brinkley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2005-11-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143036005 / 0143036009
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.08 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (17.98 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Parks, Rosa, Civil rights workers - Alabama - Montgomery
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"A timely update of the historical record, told as an inspiring and unabashedly dramatic story of an American heroine." —The Seattle Times
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 47
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