Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Brinkley
Author First Name:
Douglas
Pages:
257
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN 10:
0143036009
ISBN 13:
9780143036005
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
Penguin
Date Published:
10/25/2005
Genre:
Fighting Injustice
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.
