Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley.
Title:
Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley.
ISBN:
9780143036005
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Publication Information:
New York : Penguin, [2005]
©2000
Physical Description:
ix, 246 pages ; 18 cm
General Note:
"A Lipper/Penguin book."
Contents:
Prologue -- Chapter 1: Up from pine level -- Chapter 2: Coming of age in Montgomery -- Chapter 3: Stirring passion for equality -- Chapter 4: Laying a foundation -- Chapter 5: Preparation -- Chapter 6: Bus boycott -- Chapter 7: Strength through serenity -- Chapter 8: We make the road by walking it -- Chapter 9: Steadfast and unmovable -- Chapter 10: Detroit days -- Chapter 11: Months of bloody Sundays -- Chapter 12: Onward -- Epilogue -- Bibliographical notes.
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." -- Publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocm62210100
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