Rosa Parks

By - Brinkley, Douglas

Floor - Floor 1

ISBN 10 - 0143036009

ISBN 13 - 9780143036005

Book Status - 20 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - African American women civil rights workers

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 323.092 BRI

Physical Description - ix, 246 pages ; 18 cm.

Notes - Includes index

Book Information

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.

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