Rosa Parks : a biography / Joyce A. Hanson

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Contents: Timeline : events in the life of Rosa Parks -- The journey begins -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- Seeking equality -- Growing activism -- Foundations of the boycott -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- Life in Detroit -- Continuing activism -- After the civil rights movement
Summary: This book captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her continuing work up to her death in 2005. Each chapter provides an exploration of a period in Parks's life, portraying the people, places, and events that shaped and were shaped by her. Readers will see in Parks, not an inadvertent tripwire of history, but a woman whose lifelong struggle against racism led her inexorably to a moment where she took a courageous stand by sitting down and not moving.

2011

C2011

20th century

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic: African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans--Civil rights--History; Segregation in transportation--History; Race relations