Rosa Parks

This book is one of the very few biographies on Rosa Parks that has been written for adults. Brinkley does a fine job of covering the life of Parks from childhood through death. His focus is on her work with the NAACP and the fight for civil rights. It all culminates with her iconic refusal to move......more

On December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in to a white patron and was arrested. What seemed like a small act by a quiet, unassuming woman who just wanted to sit down and relax after a long day of work, inspired a year-long......more

A wonderful primer on Rosa Parks. Concise where it's not comprehensive. Douglas Brinkley is able to seep into the times he's writing about while still maintaining a scholarly tone. I'd hoped for something maybe more engaged with Parks on a personal level (the way Rick Perlstein treats Nixon, Goldwat......more

An interesting insight into the life of Rosa Parks as told through a somewhat dry, academic point of view. Here we read all the facts about her life before during and after that historical bur ride that set so many things in motion, including raising the profile of Martin Luther King. It made me wan......more

Nearly every American is taught the role of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights movement. The basic outline of the story is known. The full story, and the contribution of this woman, is unknown to most. Regarding her action, “Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice, noted of that winter day: ‘Somewhere i......more