Rosa Parks
By: Douglas Brinkley.
Series: Penguin lives series
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Parks, Rosa, 1913-; African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.; Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.; Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century.; Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations.; Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
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. Now 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 it sound the death knell for Jim Crow?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"A Lipper/Viking book."