Rosa Parks
2000
First Published
4.05
Average Rating
251
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
4.05
Number of Ratings
410
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Douglas Brinkley
Author · 24 books
Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” His most recent books are The Quiet World, The Wilderness Warrior, and The Great Deluge. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
