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Rosa Parks : in her own words

Reyburn, Susan, author, Hayden, Carla Diane, 1952- writer of foreword

Overview

\"In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and celebrated, she found a catharsis in her writing. Her precise descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on paper using whatever was available--meeting agendas, event programs, drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the long life of a private person in the public eye.\"--Amazon.com.

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press, in association with The Library of Congress
• Subject: Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005. / African American women Biography. / Civil rights workers United States Biography. / Women Biography. / African Americans Biography.
• ISBN: 9780820356921, 0820356921

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F334.M753 R48 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE