Rosa Parks: A Life

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/01/2005
ISBN: 9780143036005
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.08h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 47