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Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives) by Brinkley, Douglas is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives) about?
"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.
Who reads Rosa Parks (Penguin Lives)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brinkley, Douglas
- Publisher
- New York: Viking
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670891603
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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