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Rosa Parks: A Life

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.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 246 pages

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