Bibliograph

Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley

Type

Label

Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rosa Parks

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43708619

Responsibility statement

Douglas Brinkley

Series statement

Penguin lives series

Summary

Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" & "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author & a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life & tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, & humor which have made this twentieth-century everywoman a living legend--an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, & human nature

Table Of Contents

Up from Pine Level -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- A stirring passion for equality -- Laying a foundation -- The preparation -- The bus boycott -- Strength through serenity -- "We make the road by walking it" -- Steadfast and unmovable -- Detroit days -- Months of bloody Sundays -- Onward

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