Rosa Parks
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Viking, 2000.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 20 cm.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Niceville - Biography (adult) | 92 PARKS | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Parks, Rosa, -- 1913-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
Parks, Rosa, -- 1913-2005.
Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.
Parks, Rosa, -- 1913-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
Parks, Rosa, -- 1913-2005.
Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
New York : Viking, 2000.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Lipper/Viking book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brinkley, D. (2000). Rosa Parks . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brinkley, Douglas. 2000. Rosa Parks. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks Viking, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks Viking, 2000.
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