Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley

By: Brinkley, DouglasMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Penguin lives seriesDescription: 246 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 0670891606; 9780670891603Subject(s): Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 | African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography | Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century | Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century | Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations | Montgomery (Ala.) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biography. | History. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Rosa Parks.; Online version:: Rosa Parks.DDC classification: 323/.092 | B LOC classification: F334.M753 | P373 2000
Contents:
Up from Pine Level -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- A stirring passion for equality -- Laying a foundation -- The preparation -- The bus boycott -- Strength through serenity -- "We make the road by walking it" -- Steadfast and unmovable -- Detroit days -- Months of bloody Sundays -- Onward
Summary: Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" & "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author & a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life & tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, & humor which have made this twentieth-century everywoman a living legend--an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, & human nature
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Up from Pine Level -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- A stirring passion for equality -- Laying a foundation -- The preparation -- The bus boycott -- Strength through serenity -- "We make the road by walking it" -- Steadfast and unmovable -- Detroit days -- Months of bloody Sundays -- Onward

Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" & "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author & a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life & tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, & humor which have made this twentieth-century everywoman a living legend--an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, & human nature

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