Rosa Parks: A Life
Description
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.
PUBLISHER:
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0143036009
ISBN-13:
9780143036005
BINDING:
Paperback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2005
NUMBER OF PAGES:
256
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.72(H) x 4.96(W) x 6.94(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English