The Resource Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley
Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley
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The item Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" & "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author & a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life & tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, & humor which have made this twentieth-century everywoman a living legend--an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, & human nature. Annotation
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Rosa Parks
- Title
- Rosa Parks
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas Brinkley
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Segregation in transportation -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow? Historian Douglas Brinkley, whose "vigorous language" & "marvelous portraits" (Stephen Ambrose) have made him an acclaimed author & a media favorite, brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life & tumultuous times. Here in Rosa Parks are the quiet dignity, hope, courage, & humor which have made this twentieth-century everywoman a living legend--an eye-opener of a book for students of history, politics, the black experience, & human nature. Annotation
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brinkley, Douglas
- Dewey number
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- 323/.092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F334.M753
- LC item number
- P373 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Penguin lives series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Parks, Rosa
- African American women civil rights workers
- Civil rights workers
- African Americans
- Segregation in transportation
- Montgomery (Ala.)
- Montgomery (Ala.)
- Label
- Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley
- Note
- "A Lipper/Viking book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 246 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670891603
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 00035916
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm43708619
- Label
- Rosa Parks, Douglas Brinkley
- Note
- "A Lipper/Viking book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 246 p.
- Isbn
- 9780670891603
- Isbn Type
- (acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 00035916
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm43708619
Subject
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Biography
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Segregation in transportation -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama | Montgomery -- Biography
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