Rosa Parks: A Life
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Rosa Parks: A Life
By (Author) Douglas G. Brinkley
Penguin Putnam Inc
Penguin USA
25th October 2005
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography: historical, political and military
Human rights, civil rights
Social and cultural history
Ethnic studies
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 126mm, Height 176mm, Spine 18mm
181g
Description
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.
Reviews
"[A] precise history of the woman and the incident that would crown her the mother of the civil rights movement." USA Today
"A timely update of the historical record, told as an inspiring and unabashedly dramatic story of an American heroine." The Seattle Times
Author Bio
Douglas Brinkley is Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. His books include Tour of Duty- John Kerry and the Vietnam War and The Unfinished Presidency- Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House.
