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Rosa Parks

A Life

Author: Douglas G. Brinkley  

Rosa Parks
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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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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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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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“[A] precise history of the woman and the incident that would crown her the mother of the civil rights movement. (USA Today) A timely update of the historical record, told as an inspiring and unabashedly dramatic story of an American heroine. (The Seattle Times)”

"[A] precise history of the woman and the incident that would crown her the mother of the civil rights movement." —USA Today

"A timely update of the historical record, told as an inspiring and unabashedly dramatic story of an American heroine." —The Seattle Times

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About the Author

Douglas Brinkley is Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. His books include Tour of Duty- John Kerry and the Vietnam War and The Unfinished Presidency- Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House.

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Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc | Penguin USA
Published
25th October 2005
Pages
256
ISBN
9780143036005

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