01959cam a2200409 i 4500 299631823 TxAuBib 20170727120000.0 000316s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00035916 9780670891603 0670891606 (OCoLC)43708619 TxAuBib rda Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley. New York : Viking, 2000. ix, 246 pages : hardcover ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Penguin lives series Penguin lives series "A Lipper/Viking book.". 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. 20170727. Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005. 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. Biographies. Penguin lives series. Penguin lives series.