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B PAR
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Publication
Penguin Books (2005), Edition: Reprint, 256 pages
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.
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Original publication date
2000-06-01
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LibraryThing member beau.p.laurence
great biography that sets the record straight. Miss Rosa wasn't "just tired" she was a kick-ass civil rights advocate. this book also details how her thunder was stolen because of her gender.
Pages
256