This new biography provides insight into the life and motivations of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, resulting in her arrest and African-Americans of her city boycotting buses for 13 months. Karen White presents this investigative biography and history of the Civil Rights movement in Alabama in a steady, clear narration that borders on the monotonous. Eventually, the listener becomes swept up by the events unfolding in Montgomery surrounding the life of Rosa Parks, only to be distracted by sloppy pronunciation of polysyllabic words. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley brings mid-twentieth-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life and tumultuous times. Here is the quiet dignity, hope, courage, and humor that have made this every-woman a living legend.
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Rosa Parks
In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, had no idea she was changing history when, fed up and tired, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in segregated Alabama. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley brings mid-twentieth-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life and tumultuous times. Here is the quiet dignity, hope, courage, and humor that have made this every-woman a living legend.
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BN ID: | 2940172223457 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 06/02/2000 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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