Rosa Parks: A Life Paperback - 2005
by Brinkley, Douglas G. (Author)
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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.
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- Title Rosa Parks: A Life
- Author Brinkley, Douglas G. (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2005
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0143036009
- 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
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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.
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- Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 47