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Rosa Parks
by Douglas Brinkley
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This brief life of Rosa Parks--whose brave decision not to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955 was one of the key moments in the Civil Rights movement--reexamines her life and times. Brinkley is a historian known and respected for making American history accessible and interesting while maintaining a high standard of scholarship.
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9780670891603,
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Penguin Group USA,
2000
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9780736657389,
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2002
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9781415910696,
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9780736654401,
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2000
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9780143036005,
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Penguin Group USA,
2005
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9780786229017,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
2000
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Publisher Notes
A portrait of the African American woman immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act.
Media Reviews
"[A]n adroit melding of biography and history....We're offered fascinating glimpses into the movement that formal histories might have ignored...."
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