The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299922198 (1299922198)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 251
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
African American,
Feminism,
Politics,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Studies,
Race
This book set out to debunk the myth that Rosa Parks was a onetime activist. This is a definitive examination of Parks’ continued fight for civil rights long before her famous bus ride, and long afterwards, in the face of discrimination, both from whites and black men, in the form of everything from...
This insightful and revealing first full-length biography of Rosa Parks shatters all the myths about her that began with her arrest in Montgomery in 1955. Rosa Parks may have been shy, may not have worn her angry militancy on her sleeve, but she was never apolitical. She was never the accidental act...