description: An eminent historian follows Rosa Parks 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.
language: English
title: Rosa Parks: A Life
titlecomplete: Rosa Parks: A Life
characters: Rosa Parks
genres: Biography, Social Justice, Nonfiction, Womens, American History, Biography Memoir, Sociology, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 391
publisher: Turtleback Books