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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 9780670891603, Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, 2000

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9780736657389 9780736657389, Audio Cassette, Books on Tape, 2002

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9780736654401 9780736654401, Audio Cassette, Books on Tape, 2000

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9780143036005 9780143036005, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 2005

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9780786229017 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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