Douglas G. Brinkley

Rosa Parks

A Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful and devout woman 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. Well researched and written with sympathy and keen insight, the result is a moving, revelatory portrait of an American heroine and her tumultuous times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780143036005
• ISBN-10: 0143036009
• Artikelnr.: 21029374

Autorenporträt

Douglas G. Brinkley

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter 1: Up from the Pine
Chapter 2: Coming of Age in Montgomery
Chapter 3: A Stirring Passion for Equality
Chapter 4: Laying a Foundations
Chapter 5: The Preparation
Chapter 6: The Bus Boycott
Chapter 7: Strength through Serenity
Chapter 8: "We Make the Road by Walking It"
Chapter 9: Steadfast and Unmovable
Chapter 10: Detroit Days
Chapter 11: Months of Bloody Sundays
Chapter 12: Onward
Epilogue
Bibliographical Notes