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“In the second volume to date of the popular Penguin Lives series to be devoted to a woman (remarkably, only four of the projected 26 subjects will be female), historian Brinkley shreds several key myths surrounding Rosa Parks, the African-American woman who became “the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” at the age of 42, when she boldly defied Jim Crow laws by refusing to give up her Douglas Brinkley's short biography, "Rosa Parks" (2000) is part of the acclaimed Penguin Lives series, but it differs from its companion volumes in two ways. First, Brinkley's book appears to be the only volume of the series devoted to a person still alive at the time of the writing. 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 Douglas Brinkley's short biography, "Rosa Parks" (2000) is part of the acclaimed Penguin Lives series, but it differs from its companion volumes in two ways. First, Brinkley's book appears to be the only volume of the series devoted to a person still alive at the time of the writing. Sure, Rosa Parks was unassuming and she did work as a seamstress. But she was so much more, which historian and author Douglas Brinkley writes about in his biography of Mrs. Parks called Rosa Parks: A Life. Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother, Leona, was a school teacher, and her father, James, was a Douglas Brinkley Turtleback , 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages An eminent historian follows Rosa Parks 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. 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. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national Rosa Parks by Brinkley, Douglas. Publication date 2005 Biography, African Americans -- Civil rights Originally published: New York : Viking, 2000 Includes Rosa Parks by Brinkley, Douglas. 2000 Topics Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005, African American women civil rights workers, Civil rights workers, African Americans, Rosa Parks Guest host Frank Stasio talks to Weekend Edition commentator and historian Douglas Brinkley about the life of Rosa Parks. Little else is known about her life, apart from the historic About Rosa Parks. 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 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. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national Douglas Brinkley was born in Atlanta, Georgia on December 14, 1960. He received a B.A. from Ohio State University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1989. Up from Pine Level Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913. The town newspaper reported that the skies were clear and it was unseasonably warm that day, but beyond that, and the fact that she was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose, virtually no reliable documentation exists on the early years of Rosa Louise Parks. Douglas Brinkley's short biography, "Rosa Parks" (2000) is part of the acclaimed Penguin Lives series, but it differs from its companion volumes in two ways. First, Brinkley's book appears to be the only volume of the series devoted to a person still alive at the time of the writing. Douglas Brinkley's short biography, "Rosa Parks" (2000) is part of the acclaimed Penguin Lives series, but it differs from its companion volumes in two ways. First, Brinkley's book appears to be the only volume of the series devoted to a person still alive at the time of the writing. 1. Read pp. 233-234 (Bibliographical Notes in Rosa Parks: A Life by Douglas Brinkley.) On these two pages, Dr. Brinkley explains why he decided to write a biography of Rosa Parks. The idea for his book came to him in 1997 when he was leading a Magic Bus Civil Rights tour at important sites in the South with ten teachers and 20 students. The 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 Sure, Rosa Parks was unassuming and she did work as a seamstress. But she was so much more, which historian and author Douglas Brinkley writes about in his biography of Mrs. Parks called Rosa Parks: A Life. Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother, Leona, was a school teacher, and her father, James, was a Sure, Rosa Parks was unassuming and she did work as a seamstress. But she was so much more, which historian and author Douglas Brinkley writes about in his biography of Mrs. Parks called Rosa Parks: A Life. Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her mother, Leona, was a school teacher, and her father, James, was a
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