Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks2000
About this book
"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. Now she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did it sound the death knell for Jim Crow?"--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- First published
- 2000
- OL Work ID
- OL1826069W
Subjects
African American women civil rights workersRace relationsCivil rightsSegregation in transportationCivil rights workersAfrican AmericansBiographyHistoryJuveAfro-AmericansAfro-American women civil rights workersNew York Times reviewedParks, rosa, 1913-2005Montgomery (ala.), race relations