Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives)
Viking Adult, May 2000. Hardcover. Item #3062 Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation on city buses. In "Rosa Parks", Douglas Brinkley's talent as an award-winning historian shines as he brilliantly examines an American heroine in the context of this tumultuous time in US history.
ISBN: 0670891606
Rosa Parks has been called the mother of the civil rights movement. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, when, in 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. She was arrested and convicted of violating a local ordinance, but her act of defiance sparked a citywide boycott of the bus system by blacks that lasted more than a year. This single act of defiance was the catalyst for Martin Luther King, Jr., then an unknown clergyman, to rise into the national spotlight.
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