Rosa Parks : a biography

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Label

Rosa Parks : a biography

Title remainder

a biography

Statement of responsibility

Joyce A. Hanson

Creator

• Hanson, Joyce Ann

Author

• Hanson, Joyce Ann

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- 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
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama | Montgomery -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

This book captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her continuing work up to her death in 2005. Each chapter provides an exploration of a period in Parks's life, portraying the people, places, and events that shaped and were shaped by her. Readers will see in Parks, not an inadvertent tripwire of history, but a woman whose lifelong struggle against racism led her inexorably to a moment where she took a courageous stand by sitting down and not moving

Member of

• Greenwood biographies

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 323.092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F334.M753

LC item number

P3737 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Greenwood biographies