Bibliograph

Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley

Type

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Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rosa Parks

Responsibility statement

Douglas Brinkley

Series statement

Penguin lives series

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

Target audience

adult

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